Open yourself up. There is magic all around you.
Categories: Words of Wisdom
Tagged: blogging, happiness, inspiration, motivation, quotes, shakespeare, wednesday, writing
Just a regular thirty-something-year-old trying to capture the essence of life in writing. Join me as I journey through the ups, the downs and the adventures in between.
Posts tagged “wednesday”
Change. Whether it’s good or bad or indifferent, you can feel it coming from miles away. It’s like a distant storm whose approaching trajectory is revealed by the appearance of rain clouds and the pungent scent of the earth. You know it’s coming – and before you can blink, or run, or hide – you’re right in the middle of it. Some people call it a “whirlwind,” but I imagine something more powerful than that. To me, it’s like a tornado ripping through your life as multitudes of directions and decisions swirl around you in great velocity, challenging you to stand – and endure – and survive. And for the past few months, I found myself right in the eye of it all. …
Categories: Straight From The Heart
Tagged: believe, blogging, change, happiness, inspiration, leapoffaith, life, loveandolives, motivation, wednesday, writing
When I turned thirty, I posed for a picture holding a cardboard sign with the words “goodbye twenties” sprawled across it with a black sharpie. My friend said to me at the time: You’re going to love your thirties. You know who you are, what you want, and how to make it happen. Boy was she right. I made big changes to my life before this picture was taken. I said goodbye to relationships that brought me down. I focused my heart on the positive ones. I paid more attention to myself. I started working out again. I began to eat better. I smiled more. I stopped sitting on the sidelines and letting opportunities pass by, grasping only at the straws of missed memories. I danced my heart out at a Bon…
Categories: Milestones and Memories
Life is crazy sometimes, isn’t it? Have you ever thought about the past? Like, where you were then compared to where you are now? We rested our feet atop a steel frame bridge overlooking a steady stream, its caged undernet catching figments of leaves and twigs as familiar waters passed through with great intention. Have you ever visited a place of your past where the surroundings appear the same, yet everything is somehow completely different? We leaped over mud-covered rocks to get here – here to the backyard of my childhood home. This place sat at the bottom of our old driveway, surrounded by woods, a solitary bridge overlooking a slow-flowing river. I wouldn’t even call it a “park,” for it lacks the…
Categories: Straight From The Heart, Uncategorized
I was sitting at a conference table on Wednesday afternoon in the middle of a real estate closing. My client’s mortgage representative made a statement that lingered with me for quite some time: “Sometimes, you just have to say ‘yes.’ Shake a man’s hand. You know, make a deal.” He was speaking about interest rate fluctuations, the secondary mortgage market, minimum liquidity requirements; about how the longer you wait for that “better rate” or that “better deal,” you miss out on (what could be) your best opportunity. As I sat across from him at that chestnut-colored table, analyzing his message through the glare of a late afternoon sun, I took his statement to express a message which was far more meaningful – a message…
Categories: Tidbits on Life
Tagged: blogging, happiness, inspiration, life, positivity, wednesday, writing, yes
Valentine’s Day or Saint Valentine’s Day … whatever your preference is: a holiday commemorated on the 14th of every February to celebrate love; a totality of love for our family, friends and our “sweethearts,” whom Cupid brought together with his piercing arrow of affection. There is no doubt that I love this day. Perhaps it is my love for heart-shaped everything, my adoration of the pink and red color spectrum, or, to the detriment of my waist size, my unwavering love for chocolate. Perhaps it is my love for love and the opportunity to partake in a holiday that celebrates just that. Perhaps it is all of these things combined, but nevertheless, I love Valentine’s Day. Even before I had a “Valentine,” I would…
Categories: Photographic Memories, Tidbits on Life
Tagged: blogging, february, happiness, life, love, postoftheday, sayiloveyou, valentinesday, vday, wednesday, writing
LOVE AND OLIVES 