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    • #AmWriting ~The Drive Inside~ #MFRWauthor Blog Hop Challenge

      Posted at 7:49 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on March 24, 2017

      Here we go… Week 12 Topic: “My Greatest Strength”

      PERSEVERANCE

      Definition of perseverance from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

      1. :  continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition :  the action or condition or an instance of persevering :  steadfastness

      I don’t do every week’s challenge, but I try to get in the ones I can. With a new book coming soon, preparing to get it published keeps me busy.

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      What is my greatest strength? It took me a little time to come up with this though it should’ve come easily. Of course, I’d choose PERSEVERANCE as my greatest strength. I’d never continue writing if I didn’t have perseverance. Most people don’t know how often we get knocked down in this business of writing books and putting ourselves out there to be judged by the world. We, or I should say “I” knock myself down too. One bad review and my heart falls to the floor. It isn’t easy to pick it up and put it back in its place, open the laptop and continue writing. It doesn’t happen overnight though. It destroys me until I get back on my feet.

      Perseverance is my strength in other areas of my life, too…

      Without perseverance, I might not have survived childhood, my teen years, and my adult years—or being an author. I knew more waited out there, and I didn’t want to settle. Perseverance still helps me survive—to do what is needed, wanted. Life hasn’t always been easy. I came close to giving in, many times. To accept what life has dealt me, and sometimes I do…for a while until a strong push, a steadfastness inside of me, says, “NO WAY!”

       

      I admit, persevering has gotten me into trouble by being stubborn enough to fight for what I want, or to go after what I need. For being steadfast—firm in purpose. My mom gave up on her purpose. Mom asked “How high” when my dad said “Jump.” A part of me determined at a young age that I wouldn’t let weakness, at the hand of others or from life itself, get the better of me, or to keep me down. It isn’t easy living with this strength, but it is my necessity to push forward…to survive–to get the job done.


      Thank you for reading today. This is a Blog Hop. Please visit the other participant blogs Here or by clicking the lists names below.

      Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

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      1.
      Strength – What Does it Have to do With Writing?
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      Maureen Bonatch – My Greatest Strength in Writing is Also My Weakness
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      The Drive Inside MJ McCoy-Dressel
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      Allysa Hart – But I’m scared!
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      Sherry Lewis – The Quality of Being Strong
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      Kenzie Michaels – Faith, Compassion, Forgiveness
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      Ed Hoomaert – The strength of a bald Samson
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      Meka James – I Am Good At It?
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      Elle Mack – Author Superpower
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      Cathy Brockman – Riisng from the Ashes
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      Caroline Warfield – Strength, Weakness, and the Day Job
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      Leigh Anderson – Can’t Stop Me
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      Sonya Dane – Wearing My Underwear Over My Pants
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      Shari Elder – The One Two Punch
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      Helen Henderson-No Detail Too Small
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      Peggy Jaeger-My Greatest strength
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      Alina K Field-Strength Training!
      18.
      Theresa Stillwagon-Greatest Strength
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    • Top Ten Things That Could Happen on Your Way to Work

      Posted at 1:37 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on August 12, 2009

      The Ten Worst Things That Could Happen On Your Way to Work

       
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      1.         You have to drive on twisty, curvy roads and the fog is so thick you can’t see past the front of your car.

       2         A deer runs out in front of you.

      3.         You hit the deer, but it gets up and runs off, unhurt.

      4.         A dog runs out in front of you after that.

      5.         You skidded out of the way to miss the dog and hit a parked car.

      6.         You sit and cry because you’re so happy the deer and dog are okay.

      7.         Your car quits running at a stop sign.

      8.         A mile from work, you realize you forgot to put on your pants/skirt under your coat.

      9.         You drove past the coffee shop while you noticed you didn’t have all your clothes on.

      10.       You forgot to put your teeth in.

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    • White Spring

      Posted at 3:48 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on March 23, 2008

      Spring arrived on March 20th.  March 21st we had 14 inches of snow.  Everything was green again for a few short days.  The roads were full of pot holes, thanks to the salt we all want in the winter.  But, the sky was turning a pretty cornflower blue, telling us spring was here.  Yes, we saw this for a day.  Then… the news said there was a threat of 6 – 10 inches of new snow.  Sure, I knew March was unpredictable, I even said it to a few of my friends…don’t trust March.  I looked out my classroom window Friday morning and thought I saw fog, but it wasn’t fog!  It was snow. 

      By 2:45, it was nearly eight inches.  And that was just the top of my car.  It even had a shelf of snow from the drift, leaning out over the side of my car.  After cleaning that off, I had the fun of driving home.  My usual 55 mph drive was down to 35 and maybe an occasional 40 mph.  As I got closer to home, it was more like 30 miles per hour.  Oh, what joy that wasn’t because by then it was fully drifting over the roads, and deep. 

      Finally, nearly home, at least I was hoping it was my home since we were then having a whiteout, it was hard to tell for sure.  But, I learned it was my street, but now, where was the driveway? I wondered.  I finally found that too.  Anyway, I made it home safely, but I think it was the worst drive I had all winter. 

      All this happened the second day of spring.  It’s still pretty outside, though, with the boughs of the pine trees covered with thick bunches of white clumps.  The driveway is mud today, the street is cleared after 5 trips with the snow plow, and it even looks like some melted off my truck in the driveway.  At least it’s down from 14 inches to about 8 on the roof and hood.  I guess the moral of this all is that it’s spring in Michigan!  And don’t trust March.

      Posted in #AmWriting | 0 Comments | Tagged drifting, drive, snow, white, winter
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