At the Water Cooler

Mind Management

Hi Folks,

Sorry about my delays. I’ve been a bit distracted lately caught up in an extended bout of mania. My fingers in too many pies and my attention span that of a gnat. I’m not the world’s most organized person to begin with and I know that many have already written succinct and effective articles about time management and countering writer’s block.

However, I come with a different curve to the topic. What I’d like to open to door to discuss today is mind management. I know right about now someone is probably going… ???

Figment

Sometimes I think you’re a figment of my imagination

Sometimes I think I’m in it all by myself

Just when I’ve convinced myself it’s over

or wonder had it ever been

You type up a response and then hit “send”

Drink From Your Depths

Your love is a deep well
May I drink from your depths?
cherishing every precious drop
this hallowed bank of golden spirit
your essence, streamed and plentiful

Your love is a meadow
May I sit on your grassy mounds?
peaceful and content
as your breathe blows trees
swirling around me
sprinkling orange and red leaves
all over, uncovered, free

Man With the Golden Wings

It is Christmas Eve

and the snow is falling

on a lonely little house

in the countryside.

Come..., let us go inside and listen.

Welcome to New York!

The following is an excerpt from a longer piece about my first impressions of New York, fresh after graduation from High School:

June 15, 1983

The Big Apple (with the big bucks! No piddling Maryland teacher's salary for me! With my shorthand/transcription skills, my typing speed and my Spanish I can command a salary equivalent to dear old Dad’s). Off with the old, on to new things, as the valedictorian said at graduation: “Our lives have just begun!”

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Hello roomie! What? Still a 10pm curfew! I'm seventeen and a high school graduate! Stop playing! I'm calling mom!

Five minutes later, “What? Do what my father says?" This stinks! (Of course these arguments are all carried out in my head ... ‘cause a sistah likes having teeth, thank you very much).

Introducing: Age is Just a Number: Adventures in Online Dating

Title: Age is Just a Number: Adventures in Online Dating
Author: D.S. White
Publisher: Divine Truth Press
ISBN: 0977810305
Release Date: September 15, 2006
List Price: $9.95

Description:

MEET DIVINE: female, thirty-seven, slaphappy, young at heart, self-employed; an online newbie, living in New York. She is fresh out of a long-term relationship and has completed the two-year mandatorywound-licking I-hate-men mourning period. Unfortunately for Divine, someone neglected to inform her that dating has been upgraded to new millennium level. But maybe she shouldn’t worry ... hemlines aren’t the only things that have gone up.

Thirty-somethings are premium dating material now ... at least for the twenty-year-olds … Divine’s experiences are the basis for the serialmemoir I call Age Is Just a Number, a lens through which to view the world of online dating.

Read an excerpt

I Won!

Hi Folks,

Thanks to your votes, you are now reading the words of Author of the Month for December at C&B Books.

Now they must have liked your comments... because I'm up for January again... sooo... would you mind, doing it again?

How Could He?

Why can't I breathe
in his presence
quickly looking away when he
glances in my direction
wishing I could just
disappear, vanish
turn into a mere whisper
a faded memory
whenever I feel his gaze on me

He is so beautiful
breathtakingly gorgeous
an easy smile and magnetic eyes
firm hands, wide chest
I want to get lost in the curve of him
ride the smooth sway of him

Author of the Month!

Or I will be... with a little assistance from you ... LOL.

Hi Folks,

I was doing my usual Web surfing thing when I stumbled upon the neatest surprise!

I am one of five authors being considered for Author of the Month for the month of December 2006 at C&B Books Distribution. C&B is one of the leading bookstores catering to the self-published author and those ladies go out of their way to create promotional opportunities for self-published authors. I just love them!

My first reaction? I was tickled pink!

My second reaction? Ummm... how long had this been going on?

My third reaction? Nevermind all that ... to the Bat Cave and hurry!

The Debate Continues

Hi Folks,

It's that time of year again when we wrangle about what to call the seaon surrounding the birth of Hope a/k/a as Christmas.

In a world that's striving to become compliant with politically correct by-laws ... how we label this Holy Season has come under the gun.