Month: July 2026

Another fictional character question? Let’s see what I can do with this one. Elizabeth Bennett is out because I’ve already written about her and I do identify with her. Here is another fictional character that I can relate to.

Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, is a fictional character from the series Sex and the City. She is vivacious, witty, romantic, and deeply flawed! There you go! The “deeply flawed” part lands perfectly. However, the other parts do as well.

I have this funny bone that refuses to quit. And the lady is funny in the tongue-in-cheek kind of way. She is a writer and she writes about human behavior in love and romance. I absolutely love doing that as well. Her columns are insightful and very intuitive. Her iconic fashion sense takes some getting used to and I wouldn’t be caught dead in some of those outfits but she carries it off with a smile and a flick of her hair.

Meeting the wrong guys is another thing I can relate to. However, she is relentless in her search for the right kind of love, one that is all-consuming rather than wishy washy.

Let’s talk about her flaws of which she has plenty I might add. She is insecure and goes for relationships that are toxic. She repeats the same relationship mistakes and then wonders why. I do that too! She doesn’t learn from her mistakes whereas I am trying not to make the same mistakes over and over again. Not there yet but I AM TRYING!

Life revolves around her and her own romantic escapades. I think I am different, it does revolve around the romantic side but only because I am trying to do better.

We are similar in many ways and I can relate to how she is and how she views life in general especially where “romance” is involved.

The way she looks at life.

“Eventually all the pieces fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, know that everything happens for a reason.”

Here’s what she had to say on love and relationships.

“I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.”

The same here!

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Who is the fictional character you relate to the most?

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Do you think everything happens for a reason? This is a question that I’ve asked myself many times over. The answers are hard to come by.

Life happens and nothing ever stays the same no matter how much we want it to. Sometimes I wonder if what happened had to happen in order for me to find my way forward. At times, it seems so unfair and yet there is no going back to what it was before, the way life was before things got turned on its head.

Is there a rhyme or a reason for the way things happen? Is there an unseen force watching everything and decides that things are getting boring and we need to shake things up? Maybe.

Here’s what I think. Things happen because there are lessons to be learned. You are put to a test and everything about you takes a beating but it is how you react to that test and whether you stand back up to face another day says a lot about you as a person and the courage and strength you have. Along the way, you learn to withstand tragedy, loss, pain, breakups and so much more that goes to make up life as we know it. It is not easy, it never is, but those lessons have to be learned and that is it in a nutshell I think.

However, I do think that everything happens for a reason. What is the reason? I don’t know and you don’t know but a higher power knows and it is not for us to ask the reasons why.

That said, can we make those lessons less painful please?!!

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Do you think everything happens for a reason?

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I love both modern and antique pieces and as such my home decoration style reflects both.

It is not to everyone’s liking but it fits me perfectly. I think I am older than my years, an old soul, and sometimes modern to boot! I pick up pieces that catch my eye and Chinese vases are to my liking. I have a big collection of them. The blue and white ones I love and hand-painted ones as well. They are scattered around the house and they add a touch of warmth to the place. Along with that I have modern paintings and Art Nouveau pieces as well. These are pretty to look at but dust catchers as some may call them!

I actually have two living rooms so plenty of space to add clutter and revel in it! One living room has more modern furniture and the other, the one with the fireplace, is more old-fashioned. The style reflects that too, however, it doesn’t matter because when you walk into the rooms, everything seems to go well together.

The place has warmth and character but also a certain style. One kid walked into the living room, took one look and said, “COOL!” I wouldn’t call it cool, more old meets new. I don’t spend a lot of time downstairs because most of my time is spent in the office area or in the bedroom upstairs. However, I love having the space and Chachi, the cat, loves it too!

What’s my home decoration style? It is eclectic with a mishmash of both old and new. Somehow it works and it feels like home.

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What’s your home decoration style?

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It’s a song by Teddy Swims called, “Amazing.” The guy is not my kind of guy, he has a body full of tattoos but his voice is dreamy and the friend who passed away, the one I call the “angel” sent it to me. Our relationship was based on “songs” among other things. The song lyrics have stuck with me even though he is no longer here.

Why? Simply because I was struggling when I met the angel. I was just coming out of a long-term marriage and my self-esteem had taken a beating. Cheating does that. I was so far down the rabbit hole that I thought I was never coming out of it. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror because all I saw was “ugly.” Turns out looks had nothing to do with it because the woman my ex took up with was a duplicate of Popeye’s Olive Oyl. Yup, looks had nothing to do with it at all. I didn’t see it that way at the time. I went into the trenches and blamed myself for his wrongdoings and told myself that maybe I wasn’t good enough. Then along came the angel. This was one of the songs he sent me.

It did a lot to bring me out of the self-pity mode I was in. It took time but he never gave up. Every chance he got, he showed me that I was special especially to him and every chance he got, he told me I was beautiful. He not only spoke those words but his actions made me believe them.

It’s interesting how one man thought I was amazing in the beginning but as time went on, he left me feeling like I was nothing. Along came someone else who thought I was amazing and stayed to show me just how true that was. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder as they say and I experienced it firsthand from the “angel.”

He is gone now but that song and its lyrics will stay with me forever. It helped me when I needed it most.

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What’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever?

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Didn’t we have this question already? This one seems very familiar.

Anyway, I would leave it as is. If an author thought it was good enough the way they ended the story, who am I to question their thought process. Of course, we want fairytale endings where the girl gets the guy, everything turns out for the best after crying a waterfall of tears and so on. However, I think there is a rhyme or rather a reason as to why authors come up with the endings they do. The story is in their hands and they can do whatever they want with it!

Too early in the morning to come up with better endings. Question asked and answered.

Next one please…..

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If you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose?

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To tell you the truth, I don’t dream big these days. I take each day as it comes and at the end of the day I say, “You made it through today and that is enough.”

I used to have big dreams but now it is about “learning” as I go along. However, I would like to see my son make it. He is on his way and it took a lot of work, energy, and pain to get him there. Children are not easy and trying to raise a child as a single mom was definitely not easy. There was trial and error involved and some days I wanted to just give up and say, “I can’t do this!” I didn’t. I kept on. Somehow we made it.

He is standing on his own two feet now. Earning enough to have a nice apartment and more than enough for all his needs. The important thing, he says he is happy with what he is doing. That right there is important. It makes life so much easier.

However, he is not all the way there yet His six month probationary period is coming up and I HOPE he makes it! In the meantime, he is traveling and doing the best he can. I think he is fully capable of achieving anything and everything he wants to achieve in life. He just needs to put one foot in front of the other and keep on moving!

My biggest dream would be to see him succeed. I want to see him do things on his own and not run to mommy for help. He is already doing that, “mommy” is standing on the sidelines and watching him do his thing.

He was on a business trip this week and he did it all on his own. No help needed! Needless to say, I was climbing walls wondering if he was alright but that’s just the helicopter mom in me!

I hope by next year he will handle things on his own and I will be the “wind beneath his wings.” Still there to help if he needs it but no longer the mainstay.

A big dream? Definitely.

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What’s your biggest dream?

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