This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the light as the shadows, with a limitless hunger for experience and knowledge, completely unafraid of life's more frightening opportunities.
Life, Dreams
Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.
Life Lessons, Travel
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
Courage, Bravery
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.
Romantic, Beautiful
I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.
Freedom, Civilization
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
Freedom, Travel
Thrilled about my giveaway winners! Book will be mailed Tuesday (after the holiday! Hope you enjoy Libby's Journey and come back for more! Share with friends and I'd appreciate reviews!
Love, Music
Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..
Music, Crazy
If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.
Music, Advice
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Change, Growth
Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
Learning, Change
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Friendship
Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.
Power, Monster
Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely...we all have a choice in life.
Love, Inspirational
A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...
Fiction
The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.
Action, Fiction
Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people’s behavior no matter what dangers are around.
Curiosity, Fiction
I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.
Fears can be a healthy thing, they give you something to conquer
Books, Fiction
Outside of the usual bar or nightclub, it's not every day that I get a drink bought for me-at least not by strangers and certainly not on a workday. On that Saturday, in September 2010, it was from three separate individuals.