"Gutsy in Ukraine" My Gutsy Story® by Marian Beaman The gutsiest part of our visit to Ukraine in 2011 was that we didn’t use the “return” part of our ticket 4 days into the trip. Why, you ask, would you want to leave a country with affectionate, artistic people? With gold-domed cathedrals? With an astonishing exchange rate of 8.97 greve / $ Continue Reading
Vote for Your Favorite November 2013 “My Gutsy Story®”
It’s time to vote for your favorite one of four “My Gutsy Story®” submissions. You have from now until December 11th to vote on the sidebar, (only one vote per person) and the winner will be announced on December 12th, and will select a prize from our list of sponsors. Our first story is by Lola De Maci, and how she got her degree after 30 Continue Reading
How I Turned Tragedy into Triumph by Janet Simcic
Overcoming My Fear of Pink “My Gutsy Story®” by Janet Simcic Autumn! It evokes warm memories for me growing up on the east coast. Leaves change from green to crimson and bright yellow, delicious air brisk in my nostrils. My perennial October joy ended abruptly in 1993 when I became that one out of seven women diagnosed with Continue Reading
To Live Life, I Cannot Fear Change by Boyd Lemon
Winter At age sixty-six, I had lived my whole life in California, most of it on the coast, where the difference between summer and winter is about ten degrees. Some might consider such a climate ideal, and I suppose it is, but I yearned to experience the four seasons. I decided, if not now, when? I sold my house and sold, gave away or stored Continue Reading
How We Took a Leap of Faith and Found Paradise
A Leap Of Faith My wife and I found ourselves discontented. We had good jobs, a strong marriage and an all around decent, middle class, American life. Somehow it wasn’t enough. We decided to make a change, a really big change. We decided to quit our jobs and run away to paradise to live on a boat. At first it was a crazy dream. Later, as we Continue Reading