“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

A tiny excerpt from When He Was Anna:

People fascinate me; words fascinate me. People and the words they choose fascinate me the most. I’m usually careful with my words (notice I said usually). I like to think before I speak, as I know from personal experience how easy it is to say something that you’ll always regret but that you can never take back. When I think back at some of the idiotic things that have come out of my mouth, I just hope that I’m the only one who remembers.

Last December, a dear friend pointed out that it was time for me to choose my ‘word’ for the coming year. Having never chosen a ‘word,’ and realizing I was dreadfully missing something in my life because of that, I took the task very seriously. However, I’m long-winded, so narrowing a whole year into one word was nearly impossible. So, I chose three words: passion, purpose, progress.

I decided that, since my name began with ‘P’ then my words should, too. Sort of like a Facebook game, right?

Now the challenge really began. How to order the words? Which came first to lead to the others? I finally decided that passion determines my purpose, which leads to progress. I was in the midst of completing my first book, When He Was Anna, during all of this intense contemplation, so it made sense to me. I have a passion for writing, determining my purpose (writing books), resulting in progress—publishing.

It’s time to hand over the ‘what’s your word’ task to someone else. Reader: tag, you’re it.

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