Who am I & What is "Simply What Matters All About?"

First: I am currently entrenched once again in a very demanding management position. My job demands all of me and that's a good thing in many ways. I am satisfied that I do my job well and believe that every once in a while I do make a difference there. I try to mentor a couple of the younger managers to turn things over to when the time is right to do so. I have been on the all encompassing fast pace again for a while and am preparing to simplify my life greatly within the next year. For me that means making preparations in a number of ways including my health and fitness (or lack there of at present), saving as much as I can without reducing giving or doing the things I feel God led to do (I don't want to be self serving or without gratitude or forget Who put me in this position in the first place!) and lastly I am building my passion online and endeavoring to support myself by sharing things I feel enhance lives. Choices... Wow they are so important. I don't always make the right one myself, but I keep moving forward and I draw on God and His direction as I know and am quite thankful to say that I have learned that nothing begins and ends with me! HE is the component that makes it all work out as it should... I just have to put my hand to it and do my best to follow after what is authentically who and what I am and am responsible for. I am not the average woman who believes choices need to be based upon what society dictates. I never have really... March to a different drummer as they say. But I have found there are others like me out there... Maybe you here reading my blog... This blog is about living authentically, making choices that simply matter for me and what I believe I am called to be and do. Sometimes that just may mean what feels right coupled with an authentic confirmation of the paths I am to walk... What I know to be true deep within me. The following is an excerpt taken from my website: www.LordandCurtiss.ws just to give you a birds eye view of my "outside the societal box" thinking and a bit about me in this journey I am on...

I am a 50 year young, God loving divorced mom of one adult son. I have spent most of my life working far more hours than I should. I am very responsible and have always worked myself to the ultimate (& at times ridiculous) to build other people's businesses... And I have been pretty successful at it! At the same time, most of my life I have been a single parent, so though I made a decent income compared to many women in my shoes, living on one income and paying all the bills solo, I didn't have anything extra for savings. Often I felt like I worked from can 'til can't, and the only thing that kept me going was the ongoing motivation to provide a good home and environment for my then "growing up" son. I have gotten burnt out from time to time amidst the mad crazy pace of management and business life, but I've always ended back in the rat race due to the responsibilities and demands of being a single mom for the most part. Since my son is now grown and a man on his own, after my current corporate management "gig" is over (I plan to make that happen before my next birthday) I will then fulltime and travel using my van as a home base while supporting myself primarily through my online businesses, occasional consulting and speaking engagements, and my true passion: writing.

How did I come to discover this free (& honest) nomadic gypsy spirit that lives inside of me? First, I always have been drawn to small spaces inside, and wide open scenic vistas outside; love nature, love scenic beauty, love exploring, love uniqueness and discovery of all kinds. I loved every movie I saw with the actors living in a well kept RV or travel trailer actually, although I don't remember the names of the movies, those are the "clips" that live in my head: an older woman with a bird on her shoulder sitting at the table of the nice travel trailer she lived in since her husband died, she was happy and at peace though others didn't understand her choices. Another movie I remember vividly was about 2 women who traveled the country heading to Canada (with breathtaking footage along the way). An unhappy waitress who joins them along the way has a very unique personalized (too pink and frilly for me but cool nevertheless) travel trailer that she just gives away without thought when she meets the "man of her dreams". (What????? Don't give that away!!! What was she thinking???) As long as I can remember I have been drawn to the gypsy life, from the travels to the ornate cozy gypsy wagons, travel trailers, and small RVs and campers to the biggest perk of all: Independence and Freedom to live life outside the "societal box".

Thanks for visiting my blog. Please feel free to pop back in as there is much more to come... I hope to get to know others and get feedback from both those who share my passions and even from those who may think I'm a bit touched... :) That's OK, we each have our own path to walk and mine does not take away from yours and yours does not take away from mine. So lets immerse ourselves into life, our lives and make the choices based upon: "Simply What Matters".