Posted in authors, awards, blogging, books, drinks, Family, food, friends, goals, gratitude journal, health, Holidays, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, success, travel, vacation, writers, writing, tagged clean-up, fallen tree, found items, good deeds, honor, integrity, left behind, lost items, mail, packages, returning things, silent deeds, thank you on December 10, 2018| 10 Comments »
I’m sure we’ve all heard this philosophical question at some point in our lives: If a tree falls in the forest, does it make any sound? There are arguments for those in the yes camp and arguments for those in the no camp. Is anybody right? I suppose we’ll never know.
Posted in authors, blogging, dieting, dogs, drinks, Family, Fiction, food, friends, health, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, writing, tagged body, bounce back, busy, cancer, chemo, good health, Journey, long road, recovery, relax, relaxation, relaxing, rest, resting, sleep, too busy on November 26, 2018| 18 Comments »
It’s been about 8 months now since my last chemo treatment. I’ve had several follow-up medical appointments, including a mammogram, all of which went well. It seems I’m on the road to recovery. The problem is, nobody knows just how long this road is. The road is longer for some than others. (more…)
Posted in Amazon.com, authors, awards, blogging, books, Family, Fiction, Free book, friends, grammar, humor, Jansen Schmidt, reading, resolutions, romance, short story, social media, success, words, writers, writing, tagged authors, Barnes & Noble, Book Bub, book buying, book recommendations, book reviewers, book reviews, e-books, Good Reads, Kindle, library, new authors, recommendations, star ratings on September 24, 2018| 18 Comments »
I know a lot of folks like to read. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say, there are a lot of folks who LOVE to read. I’m one of those folks. Most writers probably are. Everyone has their favorite authors, books, series, genres, etc. Me? I like to read lots of stuff. The only things I don’t read are science fiction, horror, and books that “preach” at me about anything. (more…)
Posted in authors, blogging, books, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, success, Uncategorized, words, writing, tagged computers, frustration, headache, help menus, how-to, instructions, outdated website, programming, software, technology, terminology, troubleshooting, websites on August 13, 2018| 8 Comments »
I have a love/hate relationship with technology. When electronics work, they’re awesome. When they don’t work, they suck. I try to troubleshoot on my own but the only thing I gain by doing this is a headache. I’m easily frustrated when it comes to technology.
Posted in Family, Fiction, food, friends, health, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, success, words, writing, tagged antibiotics, breast cancer, cancer, chemotherapy, flu, healing, medications, nerves, neuropathy, post-chemo, shots, sickness, treatments on July 9, 2018| 14 Comments »
As most of you probably already know, this past October I was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. Stage 1 doesn’t sound too scary but, Stage 1 is still cancer. Stage 1 still means, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and a plethora of prescription medications. Stage 1 still means many, many weeks of treatment and healing. Stage 1 means extra bi-annual exams and tests. (more…)
Posted in authors, awards, blogging, bucket list, drinks, driving, Family, Fiction, friends, goals, Holidays, humor, Jansen Schmidt, reading, resolutions, success, vacation, words, writing, tagged 50 states, bucket list, games, guessing, guessing games, prize, prizes, traveling, winning on June 4, 2018| 7 Comments »
Today we’re going to play a game. I don’t know about you, but I love to play games. As in actual games with rules and prizes and stuff, not the emotional games game. I don’t play those games. Those are hurtful. But I digress. (more…)
Posted in April, authors, blogging, books, Family, Fiction, fingers, friends, goals, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, success, writers, writing, tagged cheer, cheering up, concentration, Cooking, energy, focused, healing, horse, just do it, manuscript, motivational, normal, positive, publishing, saddle, to do lists, Youtube on April 16, 2018| 14 Comments »
So I’m back in the saddle again. Sort of. I’m not galloping full speed ahead or anything, but I’m chugging along doing normal things. Sort of. I still get tired out but one step at a time. It’s the second Monday in a row that I haven’t had to see a medical professional, so that’s a very good thing. (more…)
Posted in April, authors, blogging, books, dancing, Family, Fiction, food, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, reading, resolutions, roses, success, Vicksburg, writing, tagged aches, ashes, bad taste, cancer, cancer free, cancer sucks, eating, exhaustion, food, healing, IV, medicine, medicine taste, nausea, pains, tired, treatment, Wonder Woman on April 9, 2018| 8 Comments »
There’s a line from a song from the movie Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, that I love: “Up from the ashes, grow the roses of success.” That line can be applied to a lot of things. For me, right now, it applies to my rise from “sickness” to improved health. Not that I was unhealthy before, because I really wasn’t, I was just infected with a nastiness known as cancer. (more…)
