Margaret Mitchell received 38 rejection letters before Gone With the Wind was published. The movie Star Wars was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it. It went on to be one of the largest grossing movies in film history. As one of the best-selling artists of all time, Elvis [...] Read more »
Cancer Tips – Misery Loves Company
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer Cancer is a wicked mind game. While you sit with it and roll it around in your brain, it consumes most conscious thought. During the first month I continually looked at others hoping to find someone else with [...] Read more »
Memoir Excerpt – Day 2
Day 2 – August 21, 2007 (Italicized = original journal from day one) Aloneness, no one, empty, without, comfortless, alone, alone, alone. . . Misery loves company but there is no company after diagnosis. It doesn’t matter all those before me; it doesn’t matter all those after me. I am solitary and [...] Read more »
Forgiving God?
Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave. Ivern Ball Revelation time. I just had that aha moment while reading chapter six of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. He talks about fighting against the parasite of the mind, that we need to [...] Read more »
