Cate Conte writes the Cat Cafe Mysteries and the Full Moon Mysteries. As Liz Mugavero, she writes the Pawsitively Organic Mysteries, the first of which was an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel. She lives in the Boston area with her rescue pals.
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Can’t wait for the opportunity to read each of Carolyn’s three new books.
Love the reminder to just be “happy”!
I do hope that I can inspire younger folks not to give up – on goals and the future in general. I am free to talk to them (often taking the first step in the conversation) about the bumps and detours that have happened to me. Then I can use myself as an example that if you keep moving and trying that eventually one goal is reached and then the next and the next.
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I consider having a happy life–happy from day to day and happy overall–my primary goal. I know this is a luxury; if I had to make feeding my children or caring for a dying parent my primary goal, I wouldn’t be able to focus on happiness. But I don’t have these responsibilities at this time in my life, so happiness is at the top. As you discussed in the interview, this doesn’t preclude working hard on something you like doing; a happy life doesn’t have to mean a life lying on a beach. In fact, if I lay on a beach reading for more than a week, I–and I think most of us–would get bored (and sunburned!)
Right now, I’m trying to add another hour a day of leisure reading to my life (without giving up too much sleep) because I realized that my writing and the related responsibilities had made me give up a lot of reading time. And I’m not talking about forcing myself to read Edgar Award nominees but reading what I enjoy!
The Wickeds 
Can’t wait for the opportunity to read each of Carolyn’s three new books.
Love the reminder to just be “happy”!
I do hope that I can inspire younger folks not to give up – on goals and the future in general. I am free to talk to them (often taking the first step in the conversation) about the bumps and detours that have happened to me. Then I can use myself as an example that if you keep moving and trying that eventually one goal is reached and then the next and the next.
2clowns at arkansas dot net
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I consider having a happy life–happy from day to day and happy overall–my primary goal. I know this is a luxury; if I had to make feeding my children or caring for a dying parent my primary goal, I wouldn’t be able to focus on happiness. But I don’t have these responsibilities at this time in my life, so happiness is at the top. As you discussed in the interview, this doesn’t preclude working hard on something you like doing; a happy life doesn’t have to mean a life lying on a beach. In fact, if I lay on a beach reading for more than a week, I–and I think most of us–would get bored (and sunburned!)
Right now, I’m trying to add another hour a day of leisure reading to my life (without giving up too much sleep) because I realized that my writing and the related responsibilities had made me give up a lot of reading time. And I’m not talking about forcing myself to read Edgar Award nominees but reading what I enjoy!
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