Letters to the Moon....

One of the things I love about being a writer is participating in is social media. I am active on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Goodreads, Twitter, and YouTube. Through social media, I am able to learn what is going on, in my city and around the world. I am able to interact with friends and family, and online friends. I also have the opportunity to share my projects, photography, book publications, and blog posts such as this one. The leader of the social media market for the last few years has been Facebook. However, over the last decade, Facebook has begun to fade. At one time, I had close to 400 friends on my Facebook account; I now have less than 100. Of course, I am using the word “friend” in the social media sense of the word. Because of my writing, I have connections with people around the world. As such, I have not met most of the people that I am friends with online. To my observation, other social media outlets are booming; Instagram, Twitter and YouTube are do...

With the start of a new year, it is common to make resolutions and mantras to change our lives for the better. Last year’s mantra was “Get it clean in 2019.” Your life, your home, your finances, your relationships, if it needed attention, organizing, cleaning up, attended to, the mantra was a message of inspiration to bring about positive change. This year’s mantra is a simply a word: “clarity.” Some might think of this mantra with another word: “vision.” The mantra hearkens back to the most routine of all things in life, an eye exam. What is the equation of perfect vision? 20/20. The mantra of clarity, or vision, is dependent on the individual. How you see yourself, the world around you, the world at large, will help you envision how to bring about change. Being a student of life, I am a visual learner. If I’m learning something new, if someone tells me what to do, I won’t have a clear vision of the process, or the end result. However, if you show me what to do, what I n...