Ava's [Mind] Candy

While I’ve been procrastinating here I’ve spent a lot of that time working on my other thing. That’s a whole different conversation, though. Concurrently, I was working through many of the same branding and marketing worksheets and writing prompts as Ava. Sometimes I had some real insight. Other times I…

If you’ve spent any time with me, you know I love rats. I tend to love animals that others don’t, often animals considered to be “pests” because these animals are actually very clever survivors. Rats are one of them, though the reason I love rats is that I’ve had them…

I grew up in a very, very small, rural, Southern town. As you might imagine, I didn't fit in very well as a tall, olive-skinned Latina who excelled at everything she did with intelligence and curiosity and innate gentleness; nor because I knew there was a whole entire world out…

To best understand me, realize that this supports my life...not the other way around. One time a client told me how reading this sentence on my [former] website turned him off because he read took it to mean: "I'm not going to spend time with you unless you pay me."…

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. Tolkien's verse has rung through my head for years. I've wandered the globe, lived in other countries, and yet am…