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About This Author
I am a 40 year old married mother of two teenage boys. I live for writing, especially romance. Love the happily ever after scenerio. The best thing about writing for me is the ability to lose yourself in your work, and feel as if you've accomplished something great. At the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
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Poisoned Purple Pen
 
She sat down at her old wooden desk, pen at the ready. Her thoughts raced. What shall I write today? Tilting her head to the side, a small smile tugged at the corner of her mouth before enveloping her delicate face. The purple ink began to fill the once blank sheet, each stroke a labor of pure joy as the words flowed from her mind, her heart, her very soul.
My Dreams...
to write of romance and endless love
to love without boundaries
to learn from past mistakes
to laugh with all my heart
to be the woman I am meant to be
TODAY...
I will reach for the stars
Will not give up
Will give all that I have
Dare to dream the impossible dream
For anything in this life is possible
 <---I am blown away by this
February 16, 2017 at 9:11pm February 16, 2017 at 9:11pm
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No not just for some but for everyone
I couldn't agree more with these lyrics. I see the chaos the world is in and it's hard to watch. We live in a world of splendor, spectacular sights and so many things right at our fingertips. I've never been one that easily wraps their brain around hate and negativity. I'm not saying I've never hated things, or been hateful or negative. I'm one of those people who feels massive guilt when I know I've hurt someone, consciously or not.
I don't understand why it's so difficult to be nice to one another. Why is it so hard to consider what someone else might be feeling? I don't think we were put here to attack each other for opposing viewpoints. That is what is happening every day now. There is no escape from it that I can see. We get so caught up in our ego that it's stifling the world. I don't remember things being so out of control when I was a kid. The world was more carefree. You knew your neighbors, stood beside them in times of trouble, and applauded their achievements.
Now it seems families are divided over religion and politics. Forget about walking next door for a cup of coffee and sharing your worries or some random chit chat. Sadly, those days are gone. Everyone seems to be caught up in themselves, what is best for them, and what they deem is right and wrong. Conform or get out. I don't get it!
I despise the 'my way or the highway' attitude. Selfishness. And sore winners.
We need to love one another. To have an open mind. No one ever said you had to agree. Agree to disagree, there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's healthy to explore someone else's viewpoint.
It is up to us to turn this nonsense around. And the first step would be in opening our hearts and learning to love one another. The things that make us the same, and even those things that make us different. Heal the World. Love your neighbor. It doesn't cost anything to be kind. Living in negativity is exhausting. Being kind lifts your heart and you will feel better for it. That is what we should all be paying forward: Love and Kindness. 
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February 16, 2017 at 8:09pm February 16, 2017 at 8:09pm
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Prompt: We've all got them...what are some of your favorite misheard song lyrics? Those words and lines you swear are/were the truth...until someone else set you straight with the facts (and probably the lyric booklet that came with the album/tape/CD).
Ah, music, my sweet, sweet music. How you've played me over the years. For instance, I'm a Rihanna fan. And out comes this song and the only words I can decipher are work, work, work, work. Honestly I didn't even try to figure that song out. And you should know going in I've got A to Z lyrics bookmarked because I like knowing what I'm singing. I've always been big on getting the words right. But I have to say the one song that plagued me for years was this little beauty from childhood by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
Oh Blinded by the Light indeed. I can clearly recall asking my mother what he was saying when we were driving once, and even she couldn't understand that lyric. We joked around about how it sounded like the word douche, but knew that couldn't be it. I mean they wouldn't be singing about douche, right? Turns out they weren't. Usually when the line Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce hit, I would stop singing. Desperate to figure out what I was missing. Yep, it was only a few years ago that I looked up the lyrics and called my mom to tell her what they were.
If you haven't looked up the lyrics to that song, let me just tell you now. I'd bet $20 we've all been singing most of that song wrong.  The lyrics are even more bizarre to me now then whatever it was I used to sing as a kid. But hey, the music was great.
Then there's this oldie but goodie from my childhood that my uncle pointed it out that I'd been singing wrong for decades, only to be hanging with a long time friend and find out how badly she had the lyrics. 
Build Me Up Buttercup. Ah, still love this song. But I thought it was Fill Me Up Buttercup. Which is funny to me now. So I'm getting my haircut, and Pegster and I are talking about songs from the past and what we used to dance to on Thursday nights bar hopping.
And she says, "hey T do you remember that Buttercup song?"
I'm thinking, damn who did Mark tell. I mean it was like a week after I'd finally been corrected. So I say, "Yeah, I can't believe I got the lyrics wrong for so long." And I swear to you her face lights up. God love you, Pegster ~ I can still picture your excitement from that moment.
"Me too. You thought it was Veronica too, right?"
OMG, Veronica? Where did she come up with Veronica in those lyrics????? So I'm looking all puzzled and she starts singing.
"Why do you build me up, Veronica baby just to let me down." 
Oh man I almost fell out of my chair. And I'm laughing. Hard. And she's holding scissors next to my head! 
So I tell her how no, I knew it was Buttercup, but I had Build wrong and kept saying Fill.
I love musical prompts. I admit it. Music lights up my life every day. It's better than American Express. For me, Music, Don't leave home without it! That's my motto. 
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So sorry for your family's loss, T. I've been through that sadness with the loss of a couple expected grandchildren. It's a terrible loss. 
