by Sarah | Apr 30, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Me, Bucket List, Random
Sad to see the A-to-Z challenge coming to an end. Some days were tougher than ever, but I managed to post every day this month. I wish there was something like this every month to help keep me moving. Anyway, here I go with my final letter for April.
Last year I did some things I never dreamed I would
I went Ape.
I went rock climbing.
I met Mario Andretti.
I saw Cirque.
I watched the Fever.
I got published (and then a contract on my novel, and then another, and another).
I took chances I never would have before, and I pushed myself beyond limits I didn’t know I had…and it gave me a zest for life.
Now I want more challenges…
But I’ll be spending a chunk of my summer flat on my back after foot surgery.
So much for zest.
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by Sarah | Apr 29, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Indiana, All About Me, All of Us, Blogging Life, Random, The Reluctant Hoosier
So Because, dude…DUH.
Oh, and because I get to go to this awesome Star Wars experience at the Indiana State Museum…and a costume party and…oh yeah.
I’m a total geek.
We have 4 versions of the original trilogy on DVD, and still have the VHS tapes somewhere, too.
Our kids are quite well versed in Star Wars.
If you’re in Indy – you have to go.
If you’re not? Be jealous.
Be very jealous.
Millennium Falcon, here I come!
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by Sarah | Apr 26, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Me, I'm A Writer, Random
They are lands of make believe.
Characters that I have created.
Flawed.
Wounded.
Imperfect.
Characters.
Terrible things happen to them, just as terrible things happen in real life. In writing it’s often worse, although you know what is said…
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
The difference is.
In those worlds.
Where chaos reigns.
Where characters are deeply flawed.
I am in control.
Without question, I know there will be resolution.
A happy ever after in my lighter works.
An eerie end in my horrors.
I know the resolution.
Real life – it’s messy and I don’t have all the answers.
So I write to create worlds where I do.
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by Sarah | Apr 25, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Me, Personal, Random
I have never been a vain person.
But as I get older, I find myself wishing I had been at least a little.
Pregnancy changed my skin – I know have spots and bumps on my face I never had before. I don’t like them, because they feel like a foreign object, not a part of the me I know.
Menopause (thanks to an emergency hysterectomy 6 years ago) has taken its toll on my body. I am now no longer the high-metabolism girl with skinny jeans…and I’ve had no luck breaking old habits from those days.
The circles under my eyes, a permanent genetic mark I’ve always had (and Kennedy carries now), have darkened into deep crevices of dark color that require makeup and camera/photo-editing magic to hide.
Still…
In many ways I feel the best I have in my life. Not about my outward signs, but about me.
I posted last year on my birthday about feeling like I was in the prime of my life.
It still holds true, although it wavered a bit over the long and very cold winter because in winter I tend to hermit myself inside and never, ever, go out.
But now the whether is turning. Events are planned, some lifelong dreams have been met, and I’m ready to set some new goals.
And try some new crazy things to push myself again.
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by Sarah | Apr 24, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Me, Random, Special Needs
Fear stalks me.
Like a lion stalks its prey.
It inches forward.
Leaps.
Fear that they will get sick.
Fear that I won’t be strong enough.
Finances.
Insurance.
Illness.
Depression.
I’m the silver lining girl.
But sometimes the lion of fear pounces.
On the days I’m smiling my brightest.
Is when most often, it’s devouring me most.
When I wonder how I will go on.
But I do.
The silver lining reappears.
The lion falls back.
And begins to stalk me again.
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by Sarah | Apr 23, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, Random
Time wasted is existence; used is life. ~Edward Young
When you’re growing up, you wish to be older.
Time crawls.
You can’t do this, you can’t do that, you aren’t old enough.
I tell my kids all the time not to wish it away.
Next thing you know, you blink and the things you loved are gone.
Moments you had have passed.
You’ve wished away so much that you can’t get back.
I hope they never just exist.
I hope they live.
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Sad to see the A-to-Z challenge coming to an end. Some days were tougher than ever, but I managed to post every day this month. I wish there was something like this every month to help keep me moving. Anyway, here I go with my final letter for April.
