What are your top ten favorite movies?
In no particular order. There’s more than 10, yes.
The Parent Trap (original)
Sister Act 2
Top Gun: Maverick
Superman (all of them)
Gone with the Wind
North and South
Forest Gump
Dances with Wolves
The Ten Commandments
Star Wars (all of them)
Lord of the Rings (all including The Hobbit)
Raiders of the Ark (all)
What do you enjoy most about writing?
Watching the story unfold and knowing I’m the hand behind its coming to life.
What do you love about where you live?
The mountains and the fact that there’s a little of everything here. Mountains, ocean beaches, and farmland; there’s so much beauty. (Oregon, USA)
What positive emotion do you feel most often?
I would have to go with happiness and contentment.
How do you plan your goals?
I don’t plan on paper. I think about what I want to work towards and go from there. To achieve it, stick to it. Create a drive within yourself.
Create an emergency preparedness plan.
I’m a diabetic, so I need to have the right food around at all times. But…when the sugar goes down (way down as it did with me) without a moments notice, the brain has a tendency to not notice the juice right in front of it. Quite literally it was right there and I didn’t notice. I told my son to call 911 (America’s emergency number for those of you who are from other countries and might not know that). In the meantime I found a candy bar, took a bite, swallowed, then collapsed. Yes, right in front of the large bottle of juice I never saw. Once on the floor, I new that, if I succumbed to losing consciousness, it meant coma or death. Neither one appealed to me so I focused on keeping my eyes open, breathing (I had to think to take a breath), and praying. When the EMTs arrived and took my blood sugar, it was determined that it was below 40. The prayers worked. I was white as a ghost…really I was.
My emergency plan is still to have plenty of foods/juices near me, but I must be more in tuned to when I must eat something. The above happened because I was being over medicated for my diabetes, as was determined by my NEW doctor. Yes, I changed doctors. Since then, 2 of the three meds I was on at the time of the above incident have been taken away, and I haven’t had any problems since.
What is a word you feel that too many people use?
The F-bomb
What brings you peace?
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ gives me peace.
What profession do you admire most and why?
I would have to go with firefighter. When I was in the Navy, I went through the training and gained a new perspective on the job as a whole. It’s not enough to just know what they do. You have to experience it to really know.
Beads and books.
WRITE TIME AND AGAIN 