What's in a name?

Entertaining the idea of starting a blog to feed my writing passion, I needed to first understand the "how" of internet blogging. Fortunately, I have a friend (thanks, Kelly!) who is both an extremely talented writer and a blogging enthusiast. Explaining that I needed a domain name to get started, I logged on and began my search. The journey was pure pleasure for me and I worked over many days during the small dots of time that this busy mother of four could carve out.  

It became obvious, one evening, that I was driving my husband crazy with my day-after-day search.  "Just pick something and be done," he groaned.  I love my husband.  He's a bottom liner, a get to the meat, no frills, no fluff guy.  I, on the other hand, am all about fluff.  I'm deep, complicated and I NEEDED to find a meaningful domain name - one that echoed the voice of my soul.  

Finally, I found it - JUST ONE TIME AROUND.  I'm moved, amazingly so, by music and lyrics.  There's a song, by 33 Miles, titled One Life To Love.  It's a story about the moment we realize that our life is almost over.  It's the moment you've been told that you have a finite time to live.  It's the realization that we only get just one time around. Why is it that so many of us wait to really live until we know we are soon to die?  

I love life, love others, cherish the smallest moments and relish each day as a gift. I don't know the day that God will call me home, but I don't want to waste a moment of my life while I'm here. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the blessings that find me, the friends who love me in spite of myself, the family who accepts me and for the people I can't wait to meet. I want to live a life with no regrets. We only have just one time around. Live it well. Life is good!