Sharing my journey to an intentional life

One blog post at a time.

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  • Predestination?

    It would be impossible to say exactly what brought me to this particular place and time. It’s a moment that was made when I breathed my first breath. Had that been a minute sooner or a minute later, things might be very different. Causality and pre-existing conditions aside, was I…

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  • Maddie

    She is a small dog with enough scrappy for a mutt five times her size. Brown, she is, with a black stripe down the middle…

  • Imperfect Beauty

    Imperfect Beauty

    Bent like an old woman’s back Nearly double Brown and dry If perfect beauty exists This is not it Often it is what is not…

  • 2022

    I was born in the year 1952. It was early in August. If you had asked me when I was in my early teen years…

  • Daria’s Tale

    Daria’s Tale

    I finally finished the novel. Then I finally finished proofreading and editing it. Then came the uploading and the checking and the re-uploading … repeatedly.…

About Me
Getting outdoors. One of my favorite things

I’m Dianne, the creator and author of this blog. I started blogging in order to promote my novels. But I discovered I really enjoy reaching out to the world through my blog. I’m curious and I seek answers to all sorts of things. Writing about what interests me helps me to explore the world and all the people in it. I especially enjoy the comments from readers and how they illuminate the topics under discussion.