Posted in authors, blogging, breakfast, driving, eating, food, friends, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, success, trivia, weird, writers, writing, tagged being prepared, crash dummies, do better, doing better, Edwards Air Force Base, excellence, experiments, failure, internet, Murphy's Law, not working, overpacking, random, volunteers, weird, wrong on November 9, 2020| 6 Comments »
We’ve all heard of Murphy’s Law. We’ve all probably made reference to it at least once in our lifetime. If you’re not familiar with the expression, basically it means everything that can go wrong will go wrong. But I bet you didn’t know that time has distorted the law’s intended meaning entirely. It’s quite the opposite of the commonly used version.
(more…)Posted in authors, blogging, books, Family, Fiction, friends, humor, inspiration, Jansen Schmidt, motivation, resolutions, social media, success, writers, writing, tagged authors, book reviews, books, brave, bravery, courage, courageous, Cowardly Lion, critisicm, Dorothy, failure, intimidation, query, scary, success, Wizard of Oz, writers on November 18, 2019| 14 Comments »
“Alright, I’ll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch. Guards or no guards, I’ll tear ’em apart. There’s just one thing I want you guys to do…talk me out of it.”
We’re all familiar with the sweet cowardly lion from the movie, “The Wizard of Oz.” I mean who didn’t smile when he raised his big fluffy paws and said, “Put ’em up, put ’em up?” Or when he said, “I do believe in spooks! I do believe in spooks! I do, I do, I do, I do!” and yet he soldiered on with the rest of his oddball gang. How could you not love his devotion to Dorothy? And didn’t you just melt at the end of the movie when he said, “I never would have found my courage if it hadn’t been for you?” (more…)
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