I Will Not Live in Fear Because of What Happened Today
Current mood: bummed
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Must Remember This...
Current mood: anxious
Category: Life
"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk." - Rosalynn Smith-Carter
Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Current mood: cooky/wacky
Category: Blogging
ARG ME MATEYS!!
My pirate name is:
Calico Anne Bonney
Often indecisive, you can't even choose a favorite color. You're apt to follow wherever the wind blows you, just like Calico Jack Rackham, your namesake. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!
Reading to me, is as important as breathing. When I picked up my very first romance novel at age thirteen, which happened to be Gone With the Wind, I was lost in a world of imagination and wonder. The reason I read romance is the same reason we all go to the movies or watch our favorite television shows, it enables us to escape our mundane lives and to forget all the stress and problems that surround us on a daily basis.
The reason I blog about romance novels, the authors, the characters and stories is because this on-line community allows me to belong and express my feelings and thoughts without the fear of being ridiculed or look down upon. The on-line romance community I associate with has welcomed me with open arms and have given me the confidence to post my opinions and write. I am a reader first and a writer second. My dream is to be a published author, perhaps one day of romance novels. And why not? After all I should be am an expert on romance because I have been reading them exclusively for almost twenty years.
I want to enable others who are silent to have a voice, to allow them to post their views without embarrassment or fear. Blogging allows me an output, a stress release and the joy to share my overall reading experiences. Reading and blogging about romance is not just for myself, but to help those succeed, such as the authors who write these works of art and the publisher who releases these titles. I am showing my support and hope that by doing so, these novels will be around for me, way into my golden years, and for my children and perhaps, my children's children.
The question has arisen on why so many read romance. My reason is the escape, the true and undying love between a man and a woman that will not denied, knowing a happily ever after is a given. That for a small moment in time, I am part of story where my imagination comes alive, and no matter who I am or what another person thinks I may be, each story welcomes me and won't turn me away. I read and blog about romance, because I feel I belong and I am special. And those who do the same and blog on a daily basis about a topic that brings me such joy, are also very special in my eyes and because of that I say THANK YOU a million times over.
I have a New Blog! Stop By and Say Hello
Current mood: animated
Category: Blogging
Today I went live with my new blog calledBabbling About Books, and More! My very first welcome post is up and I hope you will all come over and say "hello"!
What is in store is a mystery, but it is going to be fun!
What is Death? Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without affect, without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
Why I Love The New Kids on the Block
Current mood: cooky/wacky
Category: Music
Ne-Yo and New Kids did a song together called "Single". Their newest album in 15 years sold over 100,000 units in less than a week!! New Kids on the Block -Single
Currently
listening
:
The Block
By
New Kids on the Block
Release date: 2008-09-02
I’ve Been Nominated!
Current mood: grateful
Category: Blogging
The blog, My Friend Amy is having Book Blogger Appreciation Week and awards will be given out for the best of the best in general book blogs. The blog I am a part of, Ramblings on Romance was nominated for Most Chatty Blog!!
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