Previous Chapters CHAPTER THREE Five weeks later February 8 – 11:45 A.M. Denver, Colorado Alex pressed the video link to her command and waited for her assistant to respond. She sat in her leather office chair in front of the red oak armoire that held her computers and the link to command. “Name,” her Sergeant…
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In the last six months, I’ve become a free software hound. It all started with a post about free software. My eyes were opened to a whole world of free and fabulous software. I wanted to share with you some of the software that I now use almost every day. And it’s free and fabulous!…
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Some days, kindness comes easily. And other days, it’s wicked hard to be kind, think of the other person, believe that everyone’s doing their best and blah blah blah. Why are these days so different from each other? In my search to understand kindness, I’ve learned that the difference is me. I either believe that…
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“Recently I read a story of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the famous Tibetan Buddhist teacher. (….) ?One day he stood in front of the class and drew a V on a large sheet of paper. ‘What is this?’ he asked. ‘A bird,’ came the answer from everyone. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘it’s a picture of the sky…
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And the winner is…?She became a butterfly as she was the thirteenth comment and the number 13 was picked by Random.org Luckily there’s a contest every week. Our grab bag for this week is: a signed copy of the Fey, signed copy of Denver Cereal or some Honey. I’ve been working on getting us some…
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CHAPTER TWO Fourteen months later January 5 – ?5:30 A.M. Denver, Colorado Alex lay somewhere between sleep and awake when John began stroking her naked body. She reached for him and he shifted on top of her. His lips brushed hers before moving to her chin. His tongue flicked the crease in her chin and…
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Let’s face it. I can be an all work/no play girl. When Dax Moy launched his Magic One Hundred program, I was excited. 100 work goals, right? No.? There’s an entire section on ADVENTURE. …blink… blink…? What? Adventure? Me? What about… WORK? No seriously, WHAT ABOUT WORK? You can see that I have a fairly…
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The Open Grove is back in business. I haven’t let my breath out yet. I guess after all this time (8 years), I can’t really believe it. But Tuesday, I signed an agreement that said that, as long as we stayed in holistic health and well-being (which is what we’ve always done), we could continue…
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This week’s Simply Kind Tuesday comes from She became a Butterfly. ?She emailed me this incredible story. I thought that it reflected our values and ideas about striving to be kind against many obstacles. “I would up doing something very important by accident, Claudia. “In December, an amazing girl named Eden died from neuroblastoma pediatric…
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“Sometimes, we hold the tightest to the things that God himself is trying to tear apart.” –paraphrase from Diary of a Mad Black Woman Happy Monday!
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