Finding Love?

There. There it was. A sign....A year-and-a-half ago, I walked down the sidewalk from my then rental condo. I had just months before moved out and moved on from Marriage 2.0. There. There on the sidewalk, lay a heart-shaped leaf. I took a picture of it, and shared it...

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Tea Time with Leisa–Part II of III

You're back?! Good! It's still officially winter. I'll switch off to iced almond milk decaf lattes or iced Passion tea when the weather warms, but as long as the trees remain naked, I'm warming my insides with--ahhhh-a cozy mug of simmering hot tea....

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I Am ~ Rent this Movie!

Ahem....I interrupt your Sunday night viewing of Downton Abbey to share with you a must see movie. It's making the rounds in the spiritual community. I missed it last month at The Center for Spiritual Living Nashville, but fortunately caught it this weekend at Art...

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The Next Big Thing! (An Authors Blog Hop)

My writing mentor/coach, Portland, Ore.-based Charlotte Rains Dixon--whom I met through Middle Tennessee State University's Writer's Loft--tagged me to participate in a blog hop about my next book. She was tagged, then she tagged me and some other writers and...

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Ode to A Lover* (+ Blog Hop Details)

Sheepskinned seductress, you are. To only you do I write poetry.   Most people batten down their hatches and shut tight their blinds. For you I rip open the shades and fully expose my raw heart.   YOU are poetry. Your naked limbs, arching over me like a...

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Tea Time with Leisa–Part I of 3

Google fails me in finding the verse I recently read comparing the experience of gulping coffee to the experience of savoring tea...I paraphrase: coffee--harried and hurrying tea--savoring, soothing, sitting. Winter time for me is. Tea Time.   Over the last...

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People: They Come and They Go; A Special Needs Life

They come and go. These people, in and out of our lives. A constant, steady stream. When my daughter was scheduled for an evaluation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Child Development Center, the form asked if we wanted psychological support. Blessedly, I...

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