BUSINESS IS A WALK IN THE PARK

“And I wanted something. I wanted the fleeting feelings of success, for the first time ever, in order to feel better about myself. I wanted a girl next to me. I wanted to build and sell companies and finally prove to everyone I was the smartest. I wanted to do a TV show. I wanted to write […]

IS YOUR WRITING RUINING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS?

Today is day EIGHT of the Oxygen Magazine fitness challenge. I woke up to a mouth that felt like it had been sucking on a sock through slumber. This didn’t just happen in the morning. I had the same experience in the middle of the night, along with toes that started to turn inward as […]

HIS PRIVACY AND MY PUBLIC

#Selfie #AmberGaribay I took up writing with a fever the day he told me that we are done as a couple. Before that I had only been half trying. I let go of most of all I had planned for myself when I realized that my choices would hurt him.  I did not want to […]

PERFECTION IS BORING

How many of you out there are smoking weed now that is once again popular culture and legal statewide? Would you want people to know and have you ever considered it to be a problem? How many of you are now wondering if I smoke pot? What would you think of me if I don’t? […]

THE MISTAKES WE MAKE AND DIVORCE

We were supposed to make it to the end. I believed that we would be married forever, just as I still believe that true love is eternal. Love does not go away when opinion is not agreeable or life gets hard. If you are married and it’s been awhile you may not be sure what […]

CHANCES ARE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

It had been a year. It had been one year and one day since I met the guy I would take a chance on. It would be our first anniversary of many. “Our first date was exactly one year ago babe.” He pulled me to snuggle as we remembered. “Do you remember?” I started to […]

LOVE OR SECURITY: WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

“If I would have met you in my twenties I would have given up all of my dreams for you,” I said to my boyfriend in the kitchen as I wondered about my future. He frowned, “Why do you say that?” “I just meant to say that when I was young your love would have […]