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  Welcome to my site.
I’m glad you came by for a visit.
If this was my living room, I’d invite you to move one of my cats and take a seat on the couch. I’d offer you an iced coffee and then I imagine we’d talk about all the things that make life colorful, dimensional, and brilliant. It doesn’t take long to realize that we face a lot of the same questions and quests.
When I write, it is these shared elements of our journey that shape the story. In my latest book Life, Libby, and the Pursuit of Happiness the main character, Libby Hawthorne, must let go of her version of the ideal life so she can step into her purposed life.
I hope that Libby’s personal awakening inspires all of us to move beyond good intentions to intentional living.
Relax...put your feet up. Care for another piece of French bread or cheese? (Friendship conversation staples.) Or maybe one of these choices:
—Sign up for my e-postcards and book updates
—Join me for seasonal journaling opportunities
—Peruse my books
Okay, this isn’t my Tuscan-orange glazed living room (did I mention I like color). But hopefully this will be a place we can connect over common interests and passions. I hope you’ll come back soon. I’ll move the cats and bake the brie.
Hope Lyda
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 Journaling
Journaling can take you to new ideas, mental and emotional places, and along a path to aspects of your self and life that you never explored or dreamed existed. I have always journaled. Well, I have droughts. Um, now for example. But even journaling dry periods have purpose. Sometimes we have to earn our hunger for creativity and expression.
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| Featured Books |
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| Life, Libby, and the Pursuit of Happiness |
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 Libby Hawthorne makes exotic trip itineraries but never leaves Seattle. She’d like to attend church but winds up at a bookstore. She longs for love—but who has the time? Delayed happiness has been worth it, because she’s about to get her dream promotion...
Or not.
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| Altar Call |
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 In this fun and clever sequel to Hip to Be Square, heroine Mari Hamilton is enjoying her satisfying work, an eight-month relationship to her perfect Beau, and the role of attentive bridesmaid as her friend Sadie plans the wedding of the year...
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| Hip to be Square |
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 On her twenty–ninth birthday, Mari Hamilton, a worn–out recreation director at Golden Horizons Retirement Home, is convinced that leaving social work will improve her social life. And after a life intervention by her friends Sadie, Caitlin, and Angelica it seems everyone thinks she is ready for a personal upgrade...
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