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Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

I am still a work in progress. I try to step away from my situations that are questionable and take a better look.

Jumping in with both guns blazing is always a problem for me. Practice makes perfect. The more I pause before I speak gets me the right answers, whereby I could make decisions and alter my behavior for my good.

As I look at the big picture, I see little things that can be of benefit. To discount them would cost me so much. So I try to stop and think. If that doesn’t work out, I move on to something else and learn from my lessons in my life.

For example, I listened to my sister when she advised me to make a simple call to a stranger. I could have cut her down, but I listened. I made the call, and that one action later launched my career.

I stopped, and I listened.

What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why?

I hear it was beautiful at one time, before. Now, war torn, a place of death and destruction. It is so sad.

Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.

Sometimes, I need someone to talk to as I wade through my life. I pray for help, and believe it or not, God sends one of my sisters to say a kind word.

Kind words go a long way. She talks, I listen, and then she prays for me.

It warms my heart to know someone in this crazy world cares for me.

What is your favorite restaurant?

They had a lounge area of dark wood, crystal, glass, and brass hardware. Highback armchairs of dark brown buttery leather dotted along the main floor around a splatting of side tables, main tables, or alone under wall scones or the occasional floor lamp. Music played softly in the background; some jazz or some blues nothing too modern just enough to make you relax while taking a sip of your drink and sinking into your chair waiting for your meal to arrive.

Intimate but not too cozy, it was not a family restaurant. It was a wonderful steak house with the most delicious food and great service.

Then that hateful virus Covid hit and the city went on lockdown. The owners were old, and rent was a little too high. They were there for years and then decided to retire.

Closed and gone yet not forgotten.

Nothing lasts forever except for good memories of fine dining.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

No one can predict the future. Most times, I have a hard time thinking about what I need to do in the next hour, let alone in ten years from now.

My times are not my own. I live in the presence of God. He is in control. Sure on a natural level, I need to make sure I have money for the future, so I put something up for retirement.

I make provisions for repairs and things I may need to succeed in my endeavors, but I do not rely on them. I rely on God. Things may go wrong. Health may fail. People my walk away, but God is there forever, and he is in control.

But I am human. I dream of a happy future where I am successful as a writer, and now I prep the stage for that. But my heart is not fixed on this because life gets in the way, and disappointment leads to frustration and anger.

I am flexible, and I go with the flow and make up another dream when the first does not pan out.