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What Time Is It Anyway?

Posted in April, blogging, Family, friends, goals, health, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, travel, Uncategorized, weather, weird, weird facts, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2020| 8 Comments »

alarm clockI’m all messed up. Daylight Savings always affects me, no matter if we’re springing forward or bouncing back. Losing sleep, gaining sleep, whatever, my body always feels like I’ve traveled across several time zones, slept 3 hours in each before moving on, sometimes forward, sometimes back. And it doesn’t help that I just returned home 3 days ago from a different time zone. I spent almost 2 weeks one-hour ahead of my normal zone, returned to my regular zone, then sprang ahead for Daylight Savings. I’m all mixed up. I feel like I need sleep all the time. (more…)

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Up From the Ashes

Posted in April, authors, blogging, books, dancing, Family, Fiction, food, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, reading, resolutions, roses, success, Vicksburg, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2018| 8 Comments »

Chitty Chitty Bang BangThere’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…)

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Be Your Own Cheerleader

Posted in authors, blogging, Family, Fiction, friends, goals, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, romance, short story, success, words, writers, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 12, 2016| 15 Comments »

I know, I know, being your own cheerleader is hard. That’s why we have friends and support groups and such. But, sometimes, only YOU can talk yourself off the ledge.

swear-wordsLast week I ventured down a path I rarely travel and there’s a reason for that; it’s the road of disappointment and discouragement. Usually I keep the gate shut on that life exit, but sometimes the wind blows it open and that little bastard demon living inside me wants to go exploring. Damn that little demon! (more…)

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