“So many times, it happens too fast, you trade your passion for glory. Don’t lose your grip on the dreams of the past. You must fight just to keep them alive.” ~Eye of the Tiger/Survivor Most of us remember Rocky III and the brutal beating Rocky took at the hands of Clubber Lang (the ever-rockin’ ...
“And I ran, I ran so far away. I just ran, I ran all night and day. I couldn’t get away…” ~Flock of Seagulls It seems like only yesterday, but it was, in fact, 28 years ago. On March 8, 1984, I ran away from home at the tender age of 17(.9). I didn’t just ...
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than join the Navy.” ~Steve Jobs …and a pirate is exactly what Steve Jobs was. Starting Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak at the age of 21 out of his family’s garage, Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus for the money to get his dream off the ground. Following their ...
“Today I don’t feel like doin’ anything. I just wanna lay in my bed.” ~Lazy Song/Bruno Mars If I had a penny for every time I have resisted starting a project I would truly be a rich woman. No joke. Every single time I sit down in front my super-cool Mac to write or design ...
“That penguin jumped off the iceberg.” This is what a neighbor once told me when I asked her a question she didn’t remember the answer to. Huh? She went on to explain that her brain was much like an iceberg. It could only hold so much information—or so many penguins. When a new “penguin” wanted ...
” ‘Cause it makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder. It makes me that much wiser. So thanks for making me a FIGHTER!” ~Christina Aguilera Someday I will write my memoirs…and they will curl your hair. I have been through, shall we say, a lot in my life. In the ...
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” ~Wayne Gretzky “I’ll never make it as a writer. It’s too hard to find an agent and get published. Plus I’m just a medium-good writer.” Those are words a mother never wants to hear…but I heard them tonight from my son. My 15-year-old and I were ...
“Twenty years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than the ones you did.” ~Mark Twain These past five years, I have done things I never thought I would do. I took chances, tried radical new things, defied the people around me who said I couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t. This last ...
“Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. We’d sing and dance forever and a day…” ~Mary Hopkins It’s Christmas Eve morning and I am waiting for the kids to wake up and open their presents. Things are a bit backwards this year, but that’s what happens after a divorce. We are ...
“And in our world of plenty, we can spread a smile of joy. Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time…well, tonight thank God it’s them instead of you.” ~Do They Know It’s Christmas?/Band Aid This song always makes me choke up. Although the 1984 song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was aimed at ...
