My mother celebrates ninety years today. She’s asked me to keep it a secret. To tell people she is only eighty-nine. For some reason she seems to think this sounds better. I beg to differ. No surprise there. I am her daughter after all. We are supposed to have our share of disagreements. And on […]
The Day It All Changed
Twenty-six years ago today I was at home in my apartment in the Art Museum section of Philadelphia vacuuming when the phone rang. It was Carmella, the neighbor who lived four houses away from my parents telling me they had rushed my father to the emergency room. “Get home quick. Your mother is going to […]
The Real Secret
Everyone is searching for it. That secret. The one that will solve all their problems. That magic key that will fix whatever they find lacking in their life. The only people who seem not to be searching are the ones that tell you they are in possession of it. They know what you don’t. They […]
A Dream Come True !!!
Last week I realized a big dream. I became a best selling author! Me. Joanne Tombrakos. My 3-Day Free Kindle promotion had taken my book, It Takes An Egg Timer, A Guide to Creating the Time for Your Life, to the #1 position for best selling free Kindle books in the Time Management category. For […]
Not Practicing What I Preach
I hate when I don’t listen to me! There I was. Tuesday afternoon. I set my trusty egg timer. Ready to get to some serious work. The space was set, or so I thought. It was as though I’d forgotten the basic rules and I was the one who wrote them! I didn’t shut down […]
That Thing You Have To Do
I’m the first to admit it. I didn’t buy the tickets because of her music. I bought them because I have had a desire since I first published, The Secrets They Kept for Rita Wilson to read and love my story of a Greek-American family and make it into a movie. My expectation was not […]
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