I love the TV show Gilmore Girls. The writers created such a fantastic story world with Stars Hollow and powered it all with quirky, fast-talking, beautiful Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. But the writers fell into a characterization hole, IMHO, when Rory became too-perfect-to-live. Too good to be true. Every man and his brother, every girl and her sister loved Rory. All who met her believed she hung the moon, stars and visited the Sombrero galaxy while stirring brownie mix for pale-skinned orphans. She was smart. She was beautiful. She was quick and engaging, a repartee’s repartee. She was kind and giving, her mother’s best friend. The girl next door, the one to take home to mom, and dad. She couldn’t golf or run fast, but who cared? What an endearing […]
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Giving Thanks – The MBT Voices Ezine hits the stands!
A year ago, right now, I was flat on my back in bed, in terrible, unabating pain. I had slipped a disk in my neck while shoveling and within hours was in the fetal position. I stayed that way for three weeks, and I am still in weekly therapy to maintain healing. I remember, at one point of too many sleepless nights, just weeping with fatigue and crying out to the Lord for relief. It was then I remembered the testimony of a fellow author who had struggled with devastating life-altering pain and how she coped with it. She praised God. I’ll never forget her words as she told me how she turned her eyes upward in her darkest hour, and despite the absence of any relief before her, she […]
Read the RestMake 2012 Count, Part 1: Take Time to Set Goals!
Are you planning what you want to accomplish in 2012 yet? If not, you should be. Want to get published? Plan for it. Want to write that knockout novel? Great. What are you setting in place that will insure you get there? Over these next three weekends, I’ll walk you through what you need to do to make 2012 a banner year of accomplishment, satisfaction and fulfillment. How will you know where to go and what to do if you don’t take time to mentally MapQuest your year? That just wouldn’t be right. You owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and your future readers to set yourself up for success. Ready to build your stellar year? Let’s get started.
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