I can hardly believe another year has sped by.  It's been busy, but very productive.  A year filled with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful.  I can only imagine what 2008 will bring. 

I had the opportunity to meet, interview, and write about some wonderful women.  It was my good fortune to here their stories and have the opportunity to share them with others.  How cool is that?

If you haven't picked up a copy of Womens Focus magazine, I suggest you do.  It's a good one! 

With any luck I'll find an agent and/or publisher for my book, so cross your fingers. With some more luck my play will also be performed on the stage.  Wouldn't that be awesome? 

Just like every one I have dreams.  May all of our dreams be good ones and may they come true.

BD

"I fell in love with this song by Daniel Nahmod called One Power and put some of my photos to his music. It represents what I hope for, what I live for, and what I celebrate this time of year. I hope it lifts you up and helps you remember the gold that's buried all around." -- Jan Phillips, Author, Photographer

Wow, has it been two weeks since I posted?  So it would seem.  I read an amazing piece in the Sunday paper today, James Patterson wrote to his son about the gift of reading.  I have to say, I am wholeheartedly in agreement.  If we give nothing else to our children and grand children, the love of reading should be top. 

Where else can we see new lands, experience new sensations, feel things we've never felt before - but in reading?  Movies are great, but the act of reading is just that - active.  Watching is a passive, but I know it's very possible to get into a good movie and be moved.  Alien had me jumping onto my seat. Terms of Endearment had me sobbing, while Monty Python and the Holy Grail had me laughing my butt off.

Books actually allow you to think the point of view character's thoughts, feel their feelings, along with experiencing the five senses peaked by the imagination.  The Friday Night Knitting Club had me laughing and crying and longing to learn to knit so I could feel the silken yarn slide between my fingers.  I could almost feel it - though- honest!

When I was little I read the Moonspinners and to this day I long to see the isle of Crete, smell the salt and feel the sand between my toes.  Reading is such an adventure, for every age, why not share?  Every year I buy books for those I love.  Every month I share books that I love with family and friends.  Every so often I clean out my book shelves and share the ones that all of us have read with the library. 

Show them you care, share the adventure you can only find in reading.

And writing them isn't too bad, either.

BD