When life hands you lemons say, "Lemons? What else have you got?" - bumper sticker

But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same business for which I'd sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears? Well, maybe not sweat and tears, but there was blood. Lots of blood. Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.

This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad’s SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window.” The memory brought a smile to my face.

In Cookie's defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.

There comes a moment when you know you just aren't going to do anything esle productive for the rest of the day.-T-Shirt

I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in the right order, and you’ve created a moment in time where the reader forgets about the late car payment, the dirty dishes, the impending workweek. You have created a state of bliss. Or negligence, depending on your perspective.