Enough already! On both my morning commute and my afternoon drive home, the radio DJ’s were blasting out a litany of stats on failed 
resolutions! Already!?! Seriously!?! Isn’t this still the first week in January? Yes, I turned them right off…but it got me thinking. Who says you need to start that page-a-day writing regime on January 1st or it will never happen? Who says you need to start a kale-juice fast on January 1st or never? Or make working out at the gym part of your afternoon ritual or never? Personally, with so much pressure I can’t think of a worse week to begin anything! Besides, I’m still exhausted from the frolicking fun of the last few weeks! Office parties and family gatherings, meal times that spilled right into the next meal time, or those marvelous martinis; Yes, those… True there were some sauntering mid-day walks and one night of dancing with a tiara and silk heels but mostly long late nights and up early mornings with a ton of holiday business in-between, so exhausted.
Category Archives: Life
Our Darkest Hour
“It’s always darkest right before the dawn.”
Haven’t we all heard this proverbial metaphor all our lives? In fact, it dates back through centuries and is suspected to be first penned by Thomas Fuller in the 1700’s. But is it true? Is there any astronomical reason for this saying? True, there are less electric lights while people are sleeping, and the smog and dust in our air settles in the night air granting a better view of the sky, but no, not a shred of evidence is behind this common phrase. Yet despite the lack of scientific support we keep saying it for it lends much needed morale when times are bleaker than we can bear. This week more than any other this year I have thought much of darkness, whether it creeps in slowly or spills out all at once, it presents itself.
2nd Anniversary
Can you believe Nine Cent Girl hit year TWO in November!?! Since my very first post in 2010 not a day has gone by when I don’t scribble something on Nine Cent Girl or my Twitter or Facebook pages, or post an image on Tumblr or Pinterest. And best of all, thanks to all of you, I’m writing to an audience!!! Like most writers I have two novels, a respectable folder of poems, a stash of short stories, along with the obligatory rejection letters, all crammed into my desk drawers; yet despite not being “formally” published, quite serendipitously, I have become part of a global digital family of writers. I have discovered that as much as I love writing posts and receiving feedback from my readers, I find equal delight reading other bloggers that I stumble upon each week.
