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My Not-So-Brave New World

How are you and your loved ones coping with Covid-19?  I have heard this question from many sources recently.  Many people are sincerely concerned about themselves and others. For the most part I am doing ok with keeping fear at bay over these past three weeks of practicing social distancing. After all, facing fear is

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Gratitude often comes after the event.

Over the last two days, I was reminded that sometimes it takes a while for my grateful heart to reappear after the crisis passes. This week began our annual season of thankfulness and gratitude, followed by the season of love.  Each year I love it. Nick enjoys everything about air travel.  Tuesday afternoon we were

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Celebrating awesome people.

I was invited to help celebrate the 40th birthday of Children’s Therapy Center based in Kent, Washington.  CTC has always been on the forefront of multi-disciplinary therapy for children to help them achieve maximum independence. My chance to speak gave me the unforgettable opportunity to publicly acknowledge and thank three people who dramatically changed the

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My Glass Is Half Full.

Discouragement and overwhelm seem to chase me.  Yesterday I wasn’t well, and although the sun was shining, I spent the day inside recovering.  This morning I woke up, still tired, but no longer sick.  I opened the drapes in anticipation, only to discover that it was raining with gray skies as far as I could

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Miracles happen every day!

We had a great time at the Maui Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant.  This picture is of a well-worn sign hanging in the small reception area of the restaurant.  It reminded me to look for miracles. The first miracle was that, in a restaurant with many levels of tables, there was a ramp down to an available

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Unexpected kindness is a great service.

The kindness of strangers transformed my day today. I was feeling under the weather today because I couldn’t get my asthma under control.  We stayed in the condo most of the day.  We were scheduled to attend a luau this evening and I wasn’t sure how it would go.  Not just because of my asthma,

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My own room with a view!

I was reminded today that a movie I had seen years ago was filmed in Florence.  The movie titled “A Room With a View” was released in 1985.  I saw it a year or so later on TV.  At that time in my life, I was working with my father to get my career as

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Is life like a chess game?

Nick lives in the moment.  Yes he can have anxiety about future events, but he doesn’t spend his time strategizing to create certain outcomes in his life.  He either enjoys or tolerates what is currently happening.  Sometimes he does ask, “What’s next?”  But that is usually after he’s finished dinner and he’s wondering what his

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Is it real?

Nick loves the movie Top Gun.  He watches it over and over, singing the songs while following the story line.  In case you are not familiar with the story line, this is a spoiler alert!  Goose dies. Nick always tells us at that pivotal point in the movie, “Goose is dead.”  It is like he

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Initially I thought my day was ordinary.

Yesterday, at the end of the day I thought, “Today was an ordinary day during tax season.”  I met with clients, I worked on files in between appointments, made phone calls, talked to Arden and Nick, I was tired, ate meals, etc.  Typical day, nothing special. Then, almost immediately, little vignettes of the day flooded

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Announcing that I have finished a book with the working title of “The Fairy Fort.” I am currently pitching it to publishers. Keep checking back to watch the progress of my newest novel.

Here is a quick glimpse of the story.

Sarah Doherty is an 18-year-old living in rural Ireland at the tail end of the Great War. Plagued by severe epilepsy, she is protected by her parents and lives a sheltered, secluded, lonely life. The Fae, local Irish fairies, interfere with her life. She falls forward a century in time through the local fairy fort of standing stones. She had a seizure in 1918 and woke up in 2020. The 21st century world includes life-saving prescriptions, physical comforts and the independence and freedom she seeks. The locals are welcoming and Andy Mclaughlin, a handsome young historian, is intriguing. She doesn’t want to return home.

Then a letter arrives from Boston divulging the story of Sarah and Andy’s lives that are deeply entwined in the previous century. They are not yet in love but as they seek to verify the letter through online resources, they feel a growing obligation to their unborn family and to each other. What would happen to their posterity living in Boston if they don’t return to 1918? Even if they do make it back, her parents can never know what happened to her or that would change everything.

This Young Adult time-travel romance explores the question: Do we have the freedom to make choices or is free will an elaborate illusion?

This is my third book. I love reading time travel romances. I am an advocate for epilepsy awareness because my 43-year-old son has intractable epilepsy. As a genealogist specializing in Irish research, I live part of the year in the village where the story is based. I wrote the book to help young adults understand that difficult situations can change your life. Sometimes miraculously.