Watching Things Change

Yesterday I awoke feeling that same fear I have been waking with for weeks.  You know that fear that comes with problems that you just can't seem to fix.  As the day wore on I started to feel the energy shifting.  You see I've been praying, praying, praying and trying hard as I might to have faith.

Then three things happened....

I got a really nice call unexpected that made me smile.  I got a card in the mail from an old friend that made me feel so loved and cared for.  Last but not least I got some help in the mail that was unexpected & with that came the fact that I have validation of a lifetime of love.  One I've been asking for and never seemed to come. 

Even though I know I have the same problems today that I have had for weeks I feel today that there is not only hope but so much love in this world.  I went to bed in a very different frame of mind last night.  I was grateful.  Grateful that people love me and are thinking of me.  Grateful that all I believe in is real.  I get reminders of that all the time.  Grateful that I can see the shifts of energy and really do believe in the goodness of people.

So if you are down try to feel what you do have and be grateful.  Go to the mirror and smile at yourself.  Say thank you out loud to the universe.  Light a candle then wait and feel the energy in your life shift.  Life is beautiful and bad times pass but the love coming from another human being is priceless.......

Thank You and Much Love

Sharon

Merry Christmas

I Love the words Merry Christmas.  I remember being a little girl and my mother would always give money to the Santa on the corner with the bells.  I would beg her to let me throw the money in because I loved saying Merry Christmas.

I found early on that saying the words Merry Christmas to even the most hostile and angry person could at the very least calm them down and almost always get a big smile.  Complete strangers will always respond with a look of surprise but almost always I'll get the Merry Christmas and smile back.

This year has been very trying and I was pretty sad for the past few weeks.  I went out Christmas shopping yesterday and as Mike and I were driving we went through a toll booth and I could not resist yelling over him Merry Christmas to the man taking the money.  Mike looked over at me surprised and I could see he thought Mom what the heck.  I said did he smile and he said yes and I told him see that's what happens when you say Merry Christmas.  To my surprise it instantly put me into a much happier mood and I got the Christmas spirit.

I tried it out at Toys R Us and again strangers looked startled but everyone of the grouchy people I said it to said it back. 

The spirit of Christmas is not in the giving of gifts but rather in the giving of kindness and a happy energy given to a stranger. 

I know great things are coming for me in 2011 but I will forever remember 2010 as the year I learned that to give the gift of a smile and a kind word is so much more important than buying a gift.  I know that my whole family has learned a valuable lesson this year and I trully hope we all take the love we have for each other and spread it around to those who have none.  My boys are all home this season.  Having Freddy back is such a gift in itself.  I have much to be grateful for.



So from me to you MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Maybe Santa Claus is real in the love one feels when you smile?  I think my mom would agree and be smiling down on me today.

Much Love
Sharon 


MERRY CHRISTMAS !  MERRY CHRISTMAS !  MERRY CHRISTMAS !  MERRY CHRISTMAS !  MERRY CHRISTMAS !  MERRY CHRISTMAS !  MERRY CHRISTMAS !  MERRY CHRISTMAS !

Life Lessons

I am a person who has studied new age religions and still I forget all the messages I get when I do readings.  I guess after all we are human's and the lesson's we must learn would not be a lesson if it were easy.

Life lessons can take many lifetimes to master.  I am a person who knows that my lesson, at least the lesson that gives me the most trouble is patience.  Yet I try to rush everything.  My other is staying positive.

I have worked hard to get where I am and yet I still feel like I've gone nowhere.  However, when I look back at the person I was at 25 and the person I am today I know that there has been huge growth.  I know that visualization and staying positive are two things that you need for success with anything you want in this life.  The problem is I'm also a bit OCD, I like things my way and I am a Virgo.  Therefore I tend to see the class 1/2 empty rather than 1/2 full. 

I know I'm the person keeping me from getting what I want and yet can't seem to figure out the most important thing.  How the hell do we control our own innate habits that have been learned and ingrained over years.

I blog as a way to receive messages and the message is practise makes perfect.  So I guess it's back to meditation, being in a quiet frame of mind and visualization.  Oh ha ha I forgot stay positive.

Hopefully something here will make sense to someone struggling with the same things.

Keep in mind visualization takes time it never happens overnight you must stick to it.  FAITH is what it takes.  Blind faith and a belief that you will always get what you want.  Maybe not the way or as fast as you want it but it always comes if you do the work.

Much Love and Peace
Sharon

The Act Of Giving

Giving in it's own self expects nothing in return.  I heard that saying today and it made me think.  I believe it means that in giving you give yourself a wealth of happiness as long as you don't expect anything in return.  

From a small child I have loved to see the face of a person that I've given a gift to.  It's so much fun to see someone get just the right gift.  Why is that fun?  I believe it's because in the small act of giving we put ourselves aside for just a moment in order to give another person happiness.

I've been sitting here all night feeling regretful that I can't give my kids those piles of gifts.  I can't see a huge pile of presents under the tree.  I was grieving for the lose of that giving feeling.  

Then the question came to me "is giving only giving when you have money", or can we give of ourselves.  So I sat and listed what I give.  I'm not going to go thru the list but I was happy to see that I do give as much as I can.  So in this Christmas of need and want I have found myself once more slapping myself silly because instead of being grateful I've been filled with bitterness.  That is the opposite to me of giving.

So for the remainder of the week I'll find a way to bring back the happiness of Christmas starting with baking.  Giving my family the gift of smelling the cookies baking will bring happiness.  I guess when all is said and done maybe the gift of giving is needed by me to me.  Giving myself the clarity that it's not always what we give it's that we give what we can.  If you only have a smile to give then give that.  Be as happy giving that as you would giving the I-Pad.  Give a hand when a child falls,  give advise to someone who needs it and in my nieces case use your abilities to give someone love in doing for them what you've learned.  Sometimes when someone does your hair out of love it means so much more than if they bought you a car.  (Well maybe not ha ha).

Maybe I needed to learn the lesson of gratitude and happiness.  I am a rich woman.  I have 5 men who love me very much.  I have 2 daughter in law's who are every woman's dream.  They are my daughters and at times my friends.  I have 2 grandsons and wonder of wonder I have a little girl who I will be able to hold in just a few short months.  With her will come the spring sunshine and happiness.  Wealth cannot be measured by what you have in the bank but rather by who loves you and who you love back.  On top of all that there are people who have come into my life this year that I'm so grateful for.  

So I will stand on my mountain and say Thank You God for giving to me the clarity of what's important in life.

 

Have a great weekend.

Much Love,

Sharon

My Mom and Christmas

When I was a little girl I used to get so excited about Christmas.  All the gifts under the tree and oh there were so many.  You see Christmas was the holiday that my mother absolutely loved.  If she couldn't have loads of presents under her tree then she simply was not happy.

How about putting up that tree.  She was so naggy about where each ornament had to go but after everyone was placed our tree really was pretty.  She had so many decorations and would go out and buy crafts others made.  She loved Angels just like me.  She loved Christmas just like me.  Oh no I'm like my mom.

My mother was an unusual lady.  As much as she loved the holiday she also wanted presents her way.  In other words there were few gifts that were 100% what she wanted.  My mom was so hard to please.  She married a man who could care less about gifts.  He would take us kids into the store and pick anything that looked like a woman would want it.  It didn't matter if it was what she wanted he'd buy it to get this horrible chore over with.  Then on Christmas Day you could count on my mom's disappointment.  She was not a woman taken to keeping things to herself when she didn't like the gift.  She almost always wanted to take it back but was a champion guilt layer.  In other words like a brick layer she would layer the insults oh so veiled with sarcasm til my dad would walk out of the room disgusted.  When I grew up very few things scared me about Christmas except for buying a present for my mom.  She was so picky and we all only wanted that year to be the year she loved the gift.  As she got older she got better at lying but I always knew when she loved it because she would light up like the Christmas Tree she loved so much.   When you succeeded in buying what she wanted it was like winning an award.  I would carry that happiness around for a long while. 


So how did she do with the gifts she gave to others.  She was a champ!  I always got exactly what I wanted and she was amazing because she would buy us treats.  Like a box of fudge or a tin of nuts.  It was those little things that I was so excited about.  She also always gave us a box of craft supplies.  Even though my mother had not a craft bone in her body she wanted to instill in us that you could create something.

So on this holiday when gifts will be almost non existant I'm struck with the memories from my childhood.  Amazed that maybe that is the gift.  I haven't been able to remember a single Christmas since my mom died well over 12 years ago.  Yet, this year when we have so little I find the memories coming back to me in waves.  So maybe the lesson this year is to find the gold in your world without money.  Maybe just maybe it's more about the people and who we have loved and now miss than about opening a present.

I will always be grateful to my mommy for making every Christmas special for us and always giving me everything I wanted.  I miss you mom but I know your right beside me helping me write this.  I know you are with me this year more than any other.  You always knew what I needed for Christmas.  Thanks for giving me back my memories and you mom. 

I can just see you in heaven standing beside St. Peter yelling at him to get it right.  Ha Ha Ha she was something.

Love to all
Sharon





December 2010

The Closer New Episode

How can a great writing team get better?  With every new episode I always wonder how will they think up new twists to entice me.  Well with the launch of the 2nd half of the 6th season this week they did it again.

Flynn (as played by Anthony Dennison) has always been a favorite for me.  Watching him turn from a almost villian against Brenda in Season 1 to a friend has been quite a ride.  I've noticed over the years that even though he's an important part of the story on almost every episode he never really got too many meaty lines.  He's been the glue holding the twosome Provenza and Flynn together.    So when I tune into The Closer and see one of my favorite character's get attacked it was one of the best fight scenes staged on this series yet.  I was captivated praying that we weren't going to lose Flynn.  Hell what would Provenza do without his buddy?   Talk about sitting on the end of my seat well I was almost on the floor.  Anthony Denison is such a great actor

Then he calls Sharon Raydor which OK I never saw that coming but it put a huge smile on my face.  Brilliant and surprising to the viewer.  Add to that we now see the Captain as not just a harping bitch but a helpful and equally brilliant character with many facets.  I was surprised and excited to see such possibilities for that character.  We love to hate Captain Raydor but this character as played by Mary McDonnell is such a great character I just hope they don't try to spin her off.

So many other parts like Provenza holding the It's a Girl balloon in the hospital are just priceless.

I was happy to see that they didn't focus on the New Police Chief as I'm not thrillled with the choice of actor and didn't want to rehash the last episode.

Many thanks for this gem of a episode.  I have to admit I've watched it three times and enjoyed it each time.  Great work writers you surpassed your previous work.

Can't wait to see my show next week.

Well that's it for now enjoy life and give thanks for the little treasures in life.

Much love.

Sharon
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The Closer

http://www.tnt.tv/series/closer/

I remember all those years ago seeing The Closer advertised on TNT.  I had always like Kyra Sedgwick and love love love her hubby Kevin Bacon but I wasn't sure about this new show.  I watched a episode or two and didn't think much of it.

So how do we go from that to completely addicted?  I watch and DVR all of the past episodes and I am excited that tonight the 2nd part of this season is about to start.  I figure I didn't really get to know Brenda and I surely didn't realize what a great cast they have.  This show is a cop show but unlike the others it shows the real flaws and lovable ways of the characters.  They are a unique cast. 

Chief Pope is shown as a old friend and lover of Brenda's who can deliver a funny line with a straight face and yet every time he zings Brenda he makes me smile.    Flynn and Provenza are just two really amusing characters.  They add so much to this show it just wouldn't be the same without them.  I can't wait to see what mischief they will start.  Like finding the dead body in Provenza's garage and going to a baseball game instead of reporting it.  Brenda's boyfriend turned into husband is just plain yummy.  He has taken a supporting role and elevated his position from straight man to someone as important to the script as Brenda. 
Without all of the people on this cast it simply would not be as enjoyable.

I could write pages about this wonderful show.  I look forward to finding out what the new chief of police is going to do and what changes are coming Brenda's way.  So at 8 pm tonight I'll be watching The Closer and will look forward to next week the minute tonight's show is over.

Thanks to the cast of The Closer for adding spice to my day.  Kyra you are so damn good please don't think of ending this show anytime soon.

A extreme fan.

Much love Sharon

Battle Of The Fat

I have been battling the great battle of the bulge for years, more than three decades.  The bulge won and I find a round very round person looking back at me in the mirror.  It's funny because I'm always surprised.  The person I am inside is not the person looking back at me.

I am a woman driven by ego.  So how does someone driven by their ego get like this?  Well they stop caring about themselves.  It's not like you decide I won't like me today.  Over time as a person accepts things they don't want.  Accepting a lifestyle they don't want.  Accept people speaking to you in a bad way it just happens.  Over time it's like a mountain with the water running in a constant drip.  That water starts to create a pathway.   Negativity is just as powerful as positivity. 

Over the years I decided that I was not important and everyone else was.  I don't regret making my kids first because they are my life.  I do however regret letting my body and health go because in the end they are now worried about me.  It's a vicious cycle.

I don't take well to nagging.  One of my boys has been at me for a long time to lose weight.  I was able to justify why I didn't want to exercise when he nagged.  Today was different that boy just opened up all his knowledge of me and gave me no out.  He came at me from a place of love and caring.   That was my undoing.  He became to me what I had always been to him.  In other words he flipped the script.  When he was growing up I never gave him a way out.  Now I find he's learned the lesson's I've taught him. 

All of my son's are bothered by how unwell I am and so I will try.  This time I'm doing it for me.   I want to wake up 30 years from now and be excited about their lives.  I want to be a part of their lives for as long as I can.  I have amazing kids and I want to see in person how well they all do.  I know they will all be successful.  I can see beyond what the world see's into their souls.  I have 4 boys that are all so tough but who inside allow themselves to love me as much as I love them.

I'm very lucky to have people who love me so much and believe in me.  So with a lot of trepidation I will start the journey.

I will blog about it and hope that someone will read it and know that it only takes "one step at a time".  That came from my wise son.

I pray that I can be up to the task.

Much love.

Sharon

Positivity, Kindness and Love

I've lived a long time and yet never thought I'd see a new era of being without.  For years my family struggled but we always could find work. 

When all this about the economy hit about 2 years ago I didn't believe it.  I was still working and we had what we needed.  We did have to go through a lot of struggles over the past thirty two years to hold on to our home but we made it.  Now I look at my family and my children and everyone is having trouble.

I can't figure out what went wrong.  Oh I know the talking heads point fingers.  Lets face it there are lots of problems and places to point to.  President Bush, the war, giving too much abroad and not enough here at home, many crisis natural and otherwise.  What really caused all of this?

I feel like it's negativity.  I know it sounds crazy.  However, I know the thoughts we think have an energy attached to it.  When people get into trouble with money they generally worry.  They don't really sit and think of how great it is.  Is it possible that we are all making things worse simply by the power of our minds and our thoughts.  Add into that what we do after worry.  The deeds we do.  Do we respond to stress by spending more, buying more?  All of this is worth thinking about.  With things so bad this year I was beside myself with worry.

Today it hit me.  Be happy no matter what the world brings to us.  Remember to be grateful for what you have and what you see and feel everyday.  Try to help others with a smile and a kind word if that is all you have and learn to accept a outstretched hand when it's given.

Sometimes the worst times end up being blessings in disguise.  So I am going to find ways to make this Christmas the best ever and I have a strong feeling that Love and Kindness will make everyone much happier than a board game that gets dusty in the closet.

Enjoy the good and the bad and become the change we wish to see in everyone.

I know there are great things coming for me and my family.

Much love

Sharon

Great Free E-Book

Happy Turkey Week

Like many of you it's the Monday before Thanksgiving and I'm surfing the internet looking to find some great recipes for the holiday.  While on my hunt I uncovered a treasure!  Thanks to the Mr. Food site I uncovered 4 free e-books.  To obtain then click on this link.  All you have to do is give them your email address and name.  I've used the Mr. Food site before and have had no problems with it.   The e-books are all pdf format and can be saved easily to your computer.


They offer the following recipes:

Thanksgiving Feast 
Fall Favorites
Let's Get Grilling
Decadent Desserts

I love free things.  I hope you find these e-books a treasure.  Make sure you look over the entire site he has many more recipes and tips.  Check out the Mr. Food Blog at http://www.mrfoodblog.com/.

Make sure you love your family and hold them close and please add the troops to your thoughts and prayers as you are getting ready for this holiday.

Much Love
Sharon

Twitter

Ok shocking I'm sitting here all alone playing my games and thought hey Joy and Sherrie are on Twitter why not me.  So I'm off to figure out Twitter which is relatively simple.

I'm not sure how long I'll tweet but as a webmaster working or not it's my calling to figure out social marketing.

I hope this is not going to drive me crazy.

I loved the way I can follow stars and look up interests.  I'll keep you posted on how I like it.

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Oh in case you feel the need to Tweet I'm Shazo329.  I really like that name.

Happy Friday everyone.

Sharon aka Shazo329

Bristol Palin DWTS Is It Fair?

I have always tried to be fair and see only the good in everyone.  When I think of Bristol Palin minus her mother I see a young courageous woman who has faced any adversity she may have and trying to do the right thing.  I have only kudos for any young person who see's that a unwanted pregnancy can turn into a miracle in your life.  From what I see she seems to love her child very much.

So who can blame her for going on Dancing With The Stars.  You can make really good money and get exposure.  She came on with almost no dancing experience and has gotten better.  There were times watching that I really thought she was pretty good.

Having said all that do I believe she should be in the finals.   No, no and uh no.  Yes she improved but not enough to see Brandy get kicked off over Bristol.  Alaska is a huge place so I suppose it could be that her state is rallying behind her.  I would hate to see this is political.  I hope that it's not the Tea Party and Republicans trying to show their strength.  This girl is a human being and she deserves to win or lose on her own merit.  If she wins cause she's so darn good as her mother likes to say well then I applaud it.  I just don't want to see reality TV turned into a joke.  Yeah Yeah I know in some cases it already is a joke. 

People could start to tune in other channels all because people like to cheat.  Now you may say they aren't cheating.  I disagree you should vote on the best dancer not put in bogus votes just to further her mother or a particular political group.

Bristol keep your head up and know that the things being said by the pundits are to keep the talking heads talking.  That's how they get paid.

I will continue to watch every week no matter what happens because the music and dancing is awesome and this is one show that turns a bad day into something a little better.

Have a great Thursday.

Sharon

What's Important In Life

If something is right you won’t lose anything in trying to obtain it.
Nothing worth having should take away from your life.
People are more important than things or ego.
Loyalty is everything.
Honesty is more important than money.
Life is to be lived and love should come easy.
To find the purpose of your life just look inside your heart.
Every person has a purpose.
Kindness is kind for kindness sake not to manipulate.
Love is everything to me
Find your passion and pursue it.  I don’t mean sex
Home is where your heart is....................................
Unconditional love is given freely and without reservation.
Believe that whatever happens is supposed to happen.
To be used is the worse feeling in this world.
If you feel something then tell the other person you may not always get the chance.
Communication is the key to understanding on both sides
Just a few thoughts that have taken up a lot of my time lately.

All this is important to make a happy fulfilled life !

Sharon

Me & Oprah

Oprah Winfrey has meant a lot of things to me.  Over the past 25 years I've been confused, amazed, enthralled, jealous and in a worship state over Oprah.  Through it all,  it has been a wonderful ride watching this lady become a fixture in the lives of the people of the world.  Oprah has been in so many homes and reached so many people.  I'm sure that when she started her show it did not hit her what the first show all those years would lead to.  Heck seeing black people on TV was rare.  Oh we had actors and actresses but no one that could become part of your life and affect people the way Oprah has.

What has she done for me well it's huge.  She taught a girl from the suburbs of Chicago how to feel.  When I watched Oprah's show's I felt empathy for others and a whole lot of other emotions.  When she did that show about bigotry in that hateful town who disliked gay people.  She did that show at a time where I knew nothing about being gay.  Seeing how hateful some of those people were to that man was horrible and I was never the same again.  Years after that my own son came out to me and the family and I feel my acceptance of him and his lifestyle started when I watched that show.

Over 20 years ago I was spanking my kids.  It was how I was raised and all I knew.  I can't remember the guests but I remember sitting in my living room crying watching a show on why you should not spank your children.  It touched me and made me feel.  It was and has been a life changing show for me.  I stopped spanking after that.  Oh I had my moments when my son's (I have 4) got to me but overall I tried to change and I believe I became a better mother that day.  Spanking was far and few after that show.

Watching how Oprah approached the OJ Simpson trial.  She was amazing, just and fair.  She gave the facts tinged with her own disgust and feelings of disbelief.  Again I looked at her differently.

I am a very large woman so I sat for years watching Oprah's size go up and down and feeling her pain when the weight creeped back on.  I wanted my own chef and personal trainer like Oprah has.  I wanted to be Oprah.  For years I have wanted to be on that show of her favorite things.  I tried a few times to get on that show.  Now it's the end of the ride and I am actually dreading her last favorite things show cause I won't be on it.  Life isn't always fair.

Right after the Oklahoma City Bombings I did get on the show.  I was there when  Phylicia Rashad was on and I was struck at how beautiful she was in person.  I couldn't believe how she looked it was my first up close but not personal time I was in a room with a famous person.  That day my Oprah adoration took a turn.  For years I had seen Oprah shake hands with the audience and she was always so kind.  Sitting in the audience she didn't seem nice and by the way she did not shake my hand which was a huge blow to me.  I stopped watching the show for a while after that.  I guess I thought what I saw on TV was real I didn't realize it was produced and designed to look a certain way.  

Yes it's true I did stay away for awhile but eventually I came to realize that she is human and she's Oprah a person.  I had idolized her and forgot that she feels and has bad days just like me.

This season I've watched in amazement at the how great all the shows have been.  I am saddened that Oprah is not going to do the show anymore but totally understand how at over 50 she needs to move on.

My dreams of working for Oprah has also come to an end but I feel that this is one show that has affected my life more than any other.  The stories I've hit on above are just a couple there are so many more.

Thanks Oprah for being there when I was at my lowest.  Thanks for helping to make me a better mother.  Thanks for showing the world how to give.  Thanks for giving me laughter watching you and Gayle camping was a highlight for me.  It made me laugh so hard.

Oprah you made a difference and I will miss you.

Much Love
Sharon

Veterans Day - Dedicated To All That Serve

I am a mother who knows what it's like to have not one son in the military but two sons.  Both of my boys are now in the reserves but I was struck on this Veterans Day of how much I've changed.

In the past I never thought much about the actual soldier and their families until I became a mom of a soldier.  I appreciate the sacrifices that they make and know how hard this life is that they chose.

Serving your country is a huge sacrifice and I now know it's not just to the soldier but to the families too.  The person that leaves for the military is a young man who wants to have a better life and see's the military as that life.  He wants to defend his country and protect his family and friends.

What they don't tell you at the recruiting station is how much time away from your family you will spend.  They don't tell the soldier that they will come to believe that working 24 hours on holiday's is normal.  The soldier really does stand on that wall for hours with no thank you in rain, snow and dust storms with temps over 100 degrees.  He does it for his country.

The mothers are not prepared to be away from their son and daughter for over 1 year at a stretch.  Mothers don't get flack jackets we don't get head gear.  We go through our day with one eye on the day to day things and the other eye on that son or daughter fighting so far away.  No sleep for most mothers in war zones.  You're afraid that if you sleep something bad will happen.  As if you sitting concentrating on them can keep them alive.  The doorbell turns into the enemy.  The ring sending shock waves through your body hoping its some kid selling candy at the door and not the military.

The day he comes back to the US is the best day in your life.  Over time though you start to notice all the changes.  The hardness you never saw before.  The ability to push bad things away as if they don't exist but you know it's always there.  The inability to smile as readily as your little man used to.  The laughter is more forced and the bad dreams much more often.

I'm a realist and know that all this is necessary for our freedoms but sometimes I wish I could take an etch a sketch eraser to him and get the boy back.  I love the man and the boy the same but I worry about his future, because he carries so many burdens in his memory.

We need to remember these men and women don't get to just come home and get back into the groove so easily.  They have so much conditioning to get through in order to get back into the real civilian world we all take for granted.

The heroes are the Navy personnel in stations like Guam so far from home and yet doing serious dangerous work aboard our ships in the ocean.  Watching our waters so that we can feel safe.  The heroes are those soldiers who are getting pelted by dust storms, hit by bombs everyday sometimes more often only to sleep a few hours to do it again.

The heroes are the wives and mothers who sit home trying to live up to the soldiers expectations of bravery but yearning to hear that laughter we took for granted.  To see that boy run up with excitement over something trivial.  That beautiful spirit that we love so much.

The heroes are those soldiers who came back with limbs missing and in pain.  Trying to make a life from what is left.

The American Soldier is a wonder to me and I as a citizen thank them all.  Thank you to the mothers like me who just want those men and woman to be safe and come back alive.

God Bless The USA Soldiers and Their Families.

I wrote this on Veterans Day but it took me a bit to publish this wasn't an easy one for me.

Much Love
Sharon

Welcome and Thanks

This is the start of my new life at 54.  Yes 54 not 53 as I always try to convince myself.  What is one year?  Well I guess it's not as close to 60.  My motto in life is be direct and keep it real.  I've wanted to start a blog for years but for some reason could not quite bring myself to put to paper all my Interesting Bits.

I have 4 sons who are all grown up and now I find myself at a cross roads.  If I was a very very rich woman I might go out with a hot 30 yr. old and buy him a corvette.  Since I'm not that woman I'll pick up a corvette at the toy store and visualize my dream life.

I have worked for more than 30 years and find I no longer want to do that.  I built over 13 sites and want more.  More as in simple, peaceful and happy.  Doing something I enjoy for me not my kids just little ole me.

So I will start posting my Interesting Bits.  My Philosophy, My Attitude, My Beliefs and My Silliness at times.  All of this in the hopes that someone will find this useful and I will reach others with the same beliefs etc.

So hold on it won't all be sage advise but it will be true and direct to who I am.

Enjoy and tell someone you can never have too few readers.

Happy Thursday and Veterans Day

Much Love

Sharon