Season 96 Episode 3695
S3 E18 - Janice Hoffmann
Janice Hoffmann is a fourth-generation farmer who broke tradition and became a musician, a stockbroker, and now, a writer. Although she has lived in five states and two foreign countries, she has called Southern California her home for 46 years. She began writing flash auto-fiction at age 71, and is a contributing writer for the Claremont Courier, and Substack. What's flash auto-fiction? Never more than five minutes at a time, and although Janice writes stories inspired by her personal experiences, she has a vivid imagination and an imperfect memory, so one never knows where the autobiography ends, and the fiction begins. Consider a Free Subscription to Stories by Janus on the Substack App or website. This link takes you directly to my December 2023 post entitled ""6500 moments of gratitude"", which has live links to other stories, most of which have a button to push so that you can snuggle in, and enjoy being read to. Sometimes, being treated to someone else reading allows you to soak in the sound and the messages. Here is a special to one of Sarah's favorites. I Forgive You is offered because most of us need to be reminded that we don’t have to be who we were five years ago or even five minutes ago. We start by forgiving ourselves and then just start over. We begin again to do, be, and become our best. I don't know if it is an inspiring quote, but ""What someone else thinks of me is none of my business"" helped me break the cycle of wasting time worrying about what others thought of me, and that was liberating as well as a huge time-saver. I first heard Terry Cole-Whittaker say it, but recently saw a version attributed to Anthony Hopkins.
