Category Archives: Stories

Sandy’s 2012 Updated Bio – a.k.a ‘The Journey and The Future’

Written on April 30, 2012 by in Stories
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Sandy started blogging and teaching online workshops in early 2009 while working 60+ hours a week as a logistics manager and operations analyst for a large distribution/transportation company.  Her business/blog, TheDreamingCafe.com, explored the relationships between self-discovery, self-expression and self-employment and provided her an opportunity to share what she learned through her writing, teleclasses and online…

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Things The Philadelphia Phillies Taught me About Dreaming

Written on October 8, 2011 by in Stories
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Last night the team with the best record in baseball lost to a wildcard team in the first round playoff series in the race to the 2011 World Series. The Philadelphia Phillies had a 102-60 record and they broke all kinds of team records. They played like champions all year and were expected to win…

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Books, Books and More Books

Written on September 10, 2011 by in Stories
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My Dad loved books and loved to read. When my Dad died I inherited his books. My husband loves books and loves to read. He reads, on average, three to five books a week. I love books and love to read. I can read up to five books a week. Our book purchases used to…

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The Brothers R & R, Resistance and Roadblocks Come to Visit

Written on February 9, 2011 by in Stories
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Today the brothers R & R, ‘resistance and roadblocks’ paid me an unexpected visit. My original plan this morning was to spend some time writing a new blog post and then spend the rest of my day working on my Next Top Author competition bio and video book pitch. The day didn’t quite go as…

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Comparing a 1930's Pulp Fiction Writer to Modern Day Writers and Bloggers

Written on March 18, 2010 by in Stories
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My husband reads a lot of western fiction and yesterday he gave me a copy of “Desert Justice” by Paul S. Powers and encouraged me to read the 35-page foreword by his granddaughter, Laurie Powers. He found the guidelines the author was held to in those days fascinating: “Do be careful with the ethics of…

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The Iowaseer – A Storyteller

Written on February 20, 2010 by in Stories
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I had a blog post just about finished sharing some of my favorite bloggers and newsletters. Then I got to thinking that many of them might be some of your favorites, too. I’ll post that blog one day, but today I thought I point you in the direction of a new blogger, a gifted storyteller…

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Three Things I Learned From Cirque du Soleil

Written on November 24, 2009 by in Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Stories
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Last night I was reviewing my notes from the Compelling Storytelling workshop I attended in June 2008 in Las Vegas with Barbara Winter and Alice Barry. As part of our ‘homework‘ we had to attend a

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Tag Your It

Written on September 20, 2009 by in Misc Musings, Pictures, Stories
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With all that is happening on the home front I was a few days behind on my emails. Today I discovered an email from my friend Connie at Sandi Lei was 912) 1. Open your first photo folder. 2. Scroll to the 10th photo. 3. Post the photo on your blog and tell the story…

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Shopping for Baby Wipes

Written on August 3, 2009 by in Stories
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A friend recently asked me to pick up some baby wipes at Walgreens for her. “Okay.” I said, thinking this was an easy task and favor to do. I should have asked her what kind, what brand of baby wipes. But, that would have been too easy. Walgreens is a huge drugstore, kind of like…

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5 reasons to go for your dreams TODAY

Written on July 22, 2009 by in Health and Fitness, Learning & Personal Growth, Stories
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1. Tomorrow never comes 2. You can be one day older and one day further away, or one day older and one day closer to you dreams 3. You can’t move forward without taking your first step 4. You will never learn to run, if you don’t learn to walk first 5. Starting today will…

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