My name is Deanna, and I am a blog-a-holic.

I am 28 years old, and live in upstate New York. I enjoy reading, writing- my hope to be a novel someday, white-water rafting, traveling, spending time with friends, and most of all- I love to laugh.

Sometimes life goes so fast that we forget to take care of our business the proper way. There will come a point in time when things need to be taken out of our closets and put back in an organized manner, thus making us more efficient and the quality of our lives much greater. I am at that point in my life. Things need to change, I am rediscovering who I am and trying to reach my potential. With that comes acceptance, building healthy boundaries, and making sense of events and people that have never made much sense to us. I never thought things would be this way, but I intend to make things the way I think they should be.

Thank you for visiting.

Careful, you might end up in my novel.

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I was once a beautiful sandy beach.

In the beginning.

The tide has come in, the tide has gone out

Stripping away my beautiful coastline

Taking my sand

Their expectations roll in

Silencing me

Crash over me

Sometimes subtly

Sometimes for more

No sand left.

You cannot ask the tide to stop

For it will always come, on time

Close down the beach

For repairs.

Establish boundaries

The waves cannot break.

I will meet you, where it is healthy for me.

Where we can both

Enjoy my beach together.

                                     ~DLHR2008