Thursday, April 22, 2010

Re-framing the moment

It’s all in how you frame things…


This week has been a little rough for various reasons. As I drove to yet another commitment tonight, I felt like I’d been dragged backwards through a knothole. Then I realized I could re-frame it. I could either be:

A) The migraine-induced-innards-turned-outtards old worn out unit that has shared my skin all week, or…

B) I could be the three-time author, rocketing forth in my cyber-gray metallic 2010 Camaro SS, tunes blasting, on my way to a dinner honoring authors.

Here’s what I decided:



If you can’t tell if I chose option A or option B, I have much bigger problems than I thought!

So I had a lovely dinner, courtesy of my publisher CFI, got to visit with some of my favorite author friends.

Here are two of them below:

This is me and my new friend, Jane Still, author of Mother's Daze at the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. Jane's goes 90 miles an hour--without a muscle car, all on her own power. If you click on her link above, you'll see her own self-portrait on her book!


This is me and my friend Janet Burningham, author of Monday Nights in Jerusalem (and 2 other books in the series) at the CFI authors' dinner. She claims her life has gone downhill since she met me, but I think she's doing great--a lot better than the character Janet in my first book, Finding Faith

It was a fun evening and reminded me that life is fun, even when it's hard. Need a light read? Read this handy, dandy book:

Available at Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Cedar Fort or me!

If you already have it, please leave a review at one or more of these sites.

3 comments:

mCat said...

And you are SO HOT rocking the camaro
xoxox

Janet said...

I love ya girl!! It was fun catching up a little last night. Good luck with your class. I'm sure it will packed!!

Jane Isfeld Still said...

I TAKE SCARY PICTURES!!!
Hey I read your book or most of it on the plane home. I laughed out loud at Cat milk and some other parts. I totally heard your voice and loved it. I am doing a blog entry about you too. Actually I got the idea from your book but first I have to blog about my airplane ride home. I will let you know when I do my blog about you:)