Author Archives: Kim Hofhiens

Even the word – aspire – sounds like breathing, and breathing is life, and this is your life! What do you want to do with it this year. Actually, one month of 2022 is gone, but there is still time to dream, aspire, work, and enjoy the results. What will you do to breath newContinue reading “ASPIRE”

I may have mentioned that I’ve lived overseas before. I’ve even learned languages — but only enough to give directions to a driver or shop in a supermarket. I didn’t really form any meaningful and lasting connections with locals. At that time, my focus was on creating wonderful memories and raising my children. But, thisContinue reading “This Time”

I had lived overseas for many years and I really didn’t want to leave my new home back in the USA, but it was time. WE had time. So we put in our papers and took a sight-seeing trip around our beloved country. We were in Florida when the e-mail informing us of our 18Continue reading “Becoming…”

It’s time to get excited about a new year and a NEW YOU! One good thing about Covid is how it makes us focus on our lives – not just what we do, but how we do it. Henry James, a great writer, once said – Three things in human life are important. The firstContinue reading “2022!”

In that moment, the wind spoke and all three, the Prince, the Prime Minister, and the young steward stopped to listen to the song until it finished. “Did you hear that?” The Prince asked. “Only the birds on the wind, Sire” the Prime Minister said. He snapped his fingers in front of the steward’s face.Continue reading “Seeing Clear”

Now, some scientist would say that insects with their gazillion eyes are beautiful.  But remember, these strange admirers are scientists. And even scientists don’t marry bugs. Our Prince looked at his murky green eyes so full of jealousy. Then, he looked at his blood-red eyes so necessary in maintaining power. And last, he held upContinue reading “Bug Eyes”

He had SIX eyes! One pair sat at the top of his forehead and gave off a neon red glow. His own green eyes sat below the red, but they were no longer beautiful. They were tainted by an inky black film. And his last set of eyes? The Prince raised his hands to feelContinue reading “Six Eyes!”

Prince Gant was young, tall, and extremely good-looking with the most penetrating green eyes anyone in the kingdom had ever seen. When he spoke all the notable men and women of the land stopped what they were doing and listened to him. With the beautiful Princess Everly already devoted to him, he was destined toContinue reading “The Handsome Prince”