By Lydia Nolan © November 16, 2025 I am turning over a new leaf today and from this day forward…. Pretty dramatic, eh?Well… The reviews I post on my other website: http://www.ibcafe.wordpress.com are all out of linear order on the dateline. Why? Because I have been so caught up with various duties, life complications, and soContinueContinue reading “Getting Organized: My Journey in Book Reviews”
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Finding Hope in Sundays: A Gateway to Weekly Renewal
by Lydia Nolan September 20, 2009 ON SUNDAYS WE THINK ABOUT MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYS, AND ANXIOUSLY AWAIT SATURDAYS I often wonder why I feel a certain amount of anxiety on Sundays. And then I realize that Sundays are the promise of a new week of business, networks of communications, contacts to ventures, and the hustleContinueContinue reading “Finding Hope in Sundays: A Gateway to Weekly Renewal”
Swim to, through & Lap Over into the Calm, Calm Sea
Yesterday was a hard pull. I love life of course. Sometimes though, it gets hard to pull through. The pull starts with waking up by the pain that tells me “get up! Arthritis is a bear. I have to stretch as much as possible, try and roll back and forth, and fan my legs inContinueContinue reading “Swim to, through & Lap Over into the Calm, Calm Sea”
From Cave to Creativity: The Writer’s Path
Writers, after a stretch of time, may become hermits. We don’t go anywhere, visit anyone, pay attention to the world around us, and when we’re done with a project, we come out of the room as though we were ascending from the underworld, looking for communication and others like us. Most of the time, weContinueContinue reading “From Cave to Creativity: The Writer’s Path”
My Desire
by Lydia Nolan C (November 25, 2023) Final- February 26, 2024 Thanksgiving had just ended and we were on to Christmas Day. Do you know how fast that had come to ending the year? And we had only four weeks to Christmas and I was sure it would be as though it were tomorrow; that’sContinueContinue reading “My Desire”
Lessons from the Past: Letting Go for a Better Year
Let it Go, Let it Go! By Lydia Nolan December 14, 2024 It isn’t an easy thing this New Year deal. We speak of letting go the old and bringing in the new. This means everything that happened last year is to be taken with a grain of salt, or left behind, or lost toContinueContinue reading “Lessons from the Past: Letting Go for a Better Year”
Why Hard Work Beats Narcissism
by Lydia Nolan C December 20, 2024 It’s Friday the 20th, the worst was done already, although it was a lucky day for me. I got my license renewal for my real estate brokerage on Friday 13, I waited due to a mix-up, for nearly one year! I couldn’t work, I couldn’t do any marketing,ContinueContinue reading “Why Hard Work Beats Narcissism”
Too Much on your Plate?
Why THIS metaphor? Must I reveal for you? NEARLY everyone knows they have secrets, and a lot of those secrets have to do with food or eating or drinking or just plain obsessive indulgence, or intake of one kind or another, hence: the plate, and too much on it. The plate stands for serving somethingContinueContinue reading “Too Much on your Plate?”
Looks Like Summer, but Mother Nature Lies
Here in sunny Southern California, it’s a beautiful sunny day. Actually, it’s been lovely and sunny for the last few days, and although the grassy knoll in front of my patio is soaked through, the sun will quickly see that the grass areas, the bushels, the shrubs and all the trees will soon take toContinueContinue reading “Looks Like Summer, but Mother Nature Lies”
Save it for the Morning After
Electric Counterpart” by Pat Metheny, “Smooth Jazz” by Roy Ayers, and “Everybody’s gotta Learn Sometime” by Beck. Dedicated to my baby girl, now in Heaven with my Big Sis November 7, 2010 – October 1, 2022 I awoke this morning with a song in my head, and quickly began singing it to myself. It wasContinueContinue reading “Save it for the Morning After”
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