Read how our family is working on healing together. Thanks to Ernest Dempsey for posting our story.
https://www.recoveringself.com/about-rts/healing-from-opioid-addiction
Family Healing
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The numbers Are In
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The numbers Are In
As it happened, this year my first article for Outlook Enrichment posted:
https://www.outlooken.org/news/article/the-way-i-see-it-ann-chiappetta
What does the article have to do with numbers? Mom was born on November 17. She’s been gone six years and I miss her even though the harsh pang of grief has softened. I am grateful for my sisters and our extended family, who help keep Mom’s spirit going.
The universe supports keeping Mom’s spirit upfront and in a cherished place for us. Special things keep falling on the date of her birth and every time it happens, I get the feeling she’s delighted. We love you and miss you, Mom; keep sending reminders that you’re out there and the universe is caring for you.
As for my new gig, I think it’s the best omen it was scheduled on this special date.
A Round Trip From New York to Greece in an Hour✈
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Yes, folks, I spent time with Karina Kantas, the host of the author’s assist podcast and the Artist First Radio Network , talking all things creativity and writing. Karina lives in the Greek Isles and it was a great show. To visit with us and enjoy the conversation, click here.
Not sure where Dreya and I will fly to next but it’s sure to be interesting. I’ve got our virtual bags packed and ready to go.
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What’s Annie Been Up To?
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From the Annie Shares News Issue 11 November 2021 email newsletter
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Hello readers, welcome to the November newsletter. Here in New York the lower Hudson is cooling off and we will once again experience winter’s cold breaths. I find winter to be a time of renewal and creatively rewarding.
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Even though it’s getting colder, why not warm yourselves by listening to a guest podcast with host Princess Diva from Trinidad and Tobago. I read two of my newest poems and one from my first collection, Upwelling. Thanks goes out to author, Amy Bovaird for the connection. Inspirational moments with Ann Chiappetta author:
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On behalf of disability awareness month, I also want to share two business and social related blog resources with articles posted by my talented colleagues:
Outlook Business Solutions and Outlook Enrichment
And to bring it home to how we celebrated White Cane Safety/Blind Americans Equality Day, recognized on October 15, check out this video:
Until next month, Dreya the book dragon and I send you and your loved ones thoughts of kindness and creativity.
Annie andApril standing for selfi before mother and daughter date night.
Felines on the Mind
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This poem was written for a weekly writing prompt generated by https://writingworkswonders.com/Writing Works Wonders. It’s fun and keeps the creative muscle in top shape.
In the Sun
By Ann Chiappetta
Bandana the cat dozes
A ginger tabby
lazes in the pumpkin patch
Hooded candy corn yellow eyes
the sphinx
basking in the warm praise of Ra.
2021
Sunday’s Kitten a Poem
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Sunday’s Kitten
By Ann Chiappetta
Not yet
A prim princess
rescued from Kittenish
misadventures, undaunted
black fur
feather
duster tail, lithe
ferrets in and out of
indoor playground until she finds
the sun.
2021
black kitten Luna with new pink and white collar sitting on her cat tree. The charm hangs from the collar and is a crescent moon with a cat on it.
Life is a Grand (Writing) Adventure
| Filed under blindness writing Writing Life
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I read my daily horoscope. It waits in my inbox until the right time. Sometimes it is a day late, providing insights into things that already happened, other days it’s right on the money. Today is an accurate horoscope day.
Since semi-retiring at age fifty-something, I’ve picked up a few contract jobs but none in the field where my true passion lay: writing and creating content for blogging and podcasts. I am hoping my horoscope and a new opportunity will assist me in shifting focus and a new adventure will include my passion with a salary, too.
I’m on a grand adventure
Full of words and sounds
Together Heart and mind smile
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Why I Like the Word Tweak
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Why I Like the Word Tweak
Hey there readers-
I left you all in limbo with a post stating I was moving my blog over to my website www.annchiappetta.com and I am happy to announce it is now completed. This is what I refer to as a tweak. As an informal verb definition, among other terms, it means to make an improvement to a system. Thank-you Siri, for the information. 😊 You all will still receive the blog updates, too.
Stay tuned for more now that thought-wheel has settled into it’s new home on the interwebs. 💻
And, as the announcer once said on the old-fashioned TV broadcasts, “and now back to the show.” 📺
Moving My Blog to a New Home
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Hi followers-
I am relocating my blog, packing up my digital belongings and sending it to my personal website, www.annchiappetta.com Why am I doing this, one might ask, and I’ll tell you all it is to help me improve SEO, also known as search engine optimization. Hey, wanting to be the top Annie to pop up on a web crawl is what will help become more marketable. At least that is what the book gurus say, among other things. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and have been saving my clams to make it happen and my top rated web person, Dave Annett, is helping make it so.
The next post you will get will be from my new virtual home on my website. Thanks for following and here’s to the future!
Artificial Divide Anthology
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Hi readers, check out a new #OwnVoice anthology by authors with visual impairment, the first anthology to include one of my short stories plus over twelve other authors. Read the description and you will understand why it’s a pivotal collection. Thanks to Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey for making it possible, along with Renaissance Press.
I hope you and your friends and colleagues support it by pre-ordering the collection. Thanks for your support, we cannot be a success without readers like you.
Release date is September 15, 2021, order now, why wait?
Artificial Divide Anthology by Renaissance Press
Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.
This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver’s seat, letting us glimpse their lives.
When we think about it, we’re not really divided. Stories by Eunice Cooper-Matchett, Anita Haas, Rebecca Blaevoet, Tessa Soderberg, Laurie Alice Eakes, Melissa Yuan, Innes – Jamieson Wolf, Ben Fulton, Felix Imonti, – Niki White, M.
Leona Godin, Ann Chiappetta, Lawrence Gunther, Heather Meares, and Jameyanne Fuller. 
Links for preordering the paperback, eBook and Audio formats
https://tinyurl.com/b8mk6wxb
https://tinyurl.com/s2tz367e