Carrie Ann Moore

🖋️ Typewriter Tales Review “Big Driver” by Stephen King Serving up horror, honey — with a side of sweet revenge and Southern sass! 💋 💭 The Surprise Plot Twist (Before the Plot Even Started!) So here’s what I didn’t realize when I started Big Driver on my Kindle… I’m reading along, minding my business, when suddenly — bam — another story starts. I thought I’d clicked on the wrong book! Turns out, nope — Big Driver isn’t a standalone story at all. After a little detective work (and one mighty fine Google moment), I learned that Stephen King’s Big Driver first appeared as one of four novellas in his 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars. 📘 Original Publication (2010) – Full Dark, No Stars Includes four stories: 1️⃣ 1922 2️⃣ Big Driver 3️⃣ Fair Extension 4️⃣ A Good Marriage So if you pick up Big Driver in book form, it’s almost always bundled inside Full Dark, No Stars — hardcover, paperback, Kindle, or audiobook. 🚗 Review Time, Y’all! Oh honey, buckle that seatbelt and grab you...

✨ 🌸 “Stop shrinking to fit places you have outgrown.” — Furaha Joyce Well, bless our hearts, ain’t that the truth? If I had a dollar for every time I tried to squeeze myself back into some old version of my life — whether it was a job, a friendship, a pair of jeans, or a dream that no longer sparkled — I’d have enough to buy front-row seats to the Grand Ole Opry and a lifetime supply of sweet tea.  Don't you pretend you don’t remember trying to get into those absolutely fabulous jeans you can’t get on anymore without pulling up the zipper 80’s style, aka metal hanger in the zipper, suck in and pull hard!  Here’s the deal, sugar: growth ain’t always glamorous. Sometimes it feels like you’re shedding skin, losing people, and outgrowing spaces faster than a teenager outgrows their britches. But that’s not failure — that’s evolution. See, we get real good at dimming ourselves to make others comfortable. We lower our voice, dull our shine, pretend we don’t know what we know — a...

🌻 Gratitude vs. Entitlement: The Lazy Truth We Don’t Wanna Admit   Dictionary Definition: Gratitude: “ The state of being grateful : thankfulness ” “The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness .”  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin gratitudo , from Latin gratus grateful First Known Use: 1565, in the meaning defined above Somewhere along the way, we traded “thank you” for “’bout time.” We’ve become a world full of people expecting gold stars just for showing up — and wouldn’t you know it, some of us don’t even bother showing up anymore. Gratitude and entitlement can’t share the same heart space. Gratitude says, “Wow, what a gift!” while entitlement huffs, “Well, it’s about time someone noticed me.” The more entitled we get, the lazier we become. Because when you think you’re owed something, you stop hustlin’ for it. You stop appreciating the little wins — the hot ...