Somewhere Over the Sun

Is not just a pretty great song by Flogging Molly.

It is also the theme of my weekend. For the second year in a row, I’m making it my mission to watch the sun rise and set every day during the extended Labor Day weekend. I don’t think we take the time to bask enough. Just simply sit within sight of something pretty and bask. I have a theory that beauty works like a marinade and sinks into your pores.

Do you realize that the sun rises and sets every day? Of course you do. But you don’t really. Otherwise, you would wake up at 5:45 a.m or take a break from indoors at 7 p.m and just watch the sky for a while. When was the last time you dedicated yourself to such a silly, beautifully recurring event?

It’s been way too long for me, so I’m going to knock my sleeping schedule out of its already off-beat rhythm and not only take the time to greet the sun in the morning and kiss it farewell in the evening, but write about it for your reading pleasure.

Aside from those posts to come, I will also show you the pictures my sister’s boyfriend took of me this afternoon for my official author headshot. I’ll give you a more detailed, narrative version of the publishing process I’ve undergone with Dog Ear. And soon, I’ll be turning in my guest post at Crazy-for-Books.com, so keep an eye out for that.

Still only one winner in my musical mystery playlist post! Email me what you think the playlist’s theme is and win a hand-written letter and personalized mix cd from someone who will eventually be a published author with a headshot to prove it.