And the Trophy for 27th Place Goes to. Dollar, Author, Humorist, Observer of the Human Condition. We need to face the fact that our country has gone pathetically soft! Here is a hard and simple fact! Lack of competition breeds mediocrity; whereas competition fosters achievement. In science, and 20. Somewhere along the line, it was decided that people no longer had the capacity to feel good about themselves.

Each week, stop by to meet a very special guest from the world of writing. Monday, February 2, 2015. Lives in Scotland with her eccentric husband and three much-too-smart children. Having grown bored with city life, she resides these days in a picturesque village by the sea where she is lucky enough to enjoy herself avoiding housework and writing sensual stories of paranormal romance and fantasy.

My identity shifts with your heartbeat. I am tripping on stones,. Gentle heartbeat buried in sand. Lock the beating pulse up underground,. Sand castles enclosing a life. As clouds drift across my haze. Hard to see, but simple to feel. There is a little piece of heaven. Deep within my core,. Ticking like a time bomb,. I find layers of myself here,.