I’ve Got My Big Girl Panties On
One Foot At A Time
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I’m a normal gal. I get up in the morning, take a shower, put on my make-up and style my hair. I head out the door for work like so many women stuck in the every day grind of this thing we call life. I could go to work without taking a shower; brushing my hair or applying make-up but that wouldn’t be a good thing for my co-workers. Speaking of make-up and co-workers, don’t you love words with hyphens? I like all words with hyphens; they make me feel like there’s more to come. I get excited when I see a hyphenated word because I know more words will follow. I know that’s silly writer’s block sad but hyphens work when your mind has gone blank. This book is for women just like me who are ordinary people with ordinary lives but because of circumstances and situations beyond their control somehow find themselves wondering, “is this as good as it’s ever going to get?” There’s an old saying that I’ve heard a million times, “Live and learn”. Well let me tell you girls, the learning parts easy. It’s the living after what you’ve learned that’s so dang hard. It’s either that or “life’s fun when you’re having flies”. I can’t keep those old sayings apart. I think it’s because their old and old things scare me. What I’m attempting to do by inviting you into my ordinary little world is to show and maybe even help some of you girls realize that trials and tribulations aren’t the end of the world, their just little set backs. It doesn’t matter if your carrying baggage from divorce or a break up, your job reeks of the nine to five blues or you even feel like your life has left you suckin hind tit. I’m proof that if life deals you a losing hand all you have to do is find that ace up your sleeve. It’s there if you look hard enough. But whatever you do, under no circumstance let the dealer know your hand bites the big one. Now listen up ladies, go get you some coffee and you’re reading glasses because I promise you this little story of mine will at some point or another relate to what’s going on in your life at this very moment. Go find that favorite quite place and tell the kids to go outside and play. Be sure and bring the Kleenex box because you’ll be crying and laughing at the same time. My language and humor sometimes reflects the little guy with the pitch fork sitting on my left shoulder, so I apologize now to my family. I’m going to be telling you some things that I’m sure I’ll live to regret and in the end will be down right embarrassing. I have a tendency to tell off on myself so enjoy the fact that I’m not scared of embarrassment now. Of course if it’s old embarrassment, I’m petrified. Are you ready because this is real life girls, the ups and downs, the highs and lows and how this girl learned to wear her big girl panties?
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She was born in a foothill, along the banks of the Long Toe River, just ten miles south of the Hand-High Basin. At the tender age of sixteen she was sent to the deep piny woods of East Texas, to live among the natives. With humor, and southern jargon, Darla gives the accounts of her life events from infancy in Austin, Texas, to the maturity of adulthood in Panola County. Writing a book on the power of positive thinking, and believing in something bigger then your self, Darla answers the question that haunts millions of women in America, Is this as good as it’s ever going to get? Through her experiences in child rearing, divorce, obesity, addiction, death and the affairs of the heart, she empowers all women to sing, dance, and wear red lipstick. Her journey relates to real life and how it can make or break an intelligent woman. Her views on how to wear your big girl panties, will prove, “If you can’t lose it, you can’t hide it, then dammit; decorate it.”
About the Author
Darla Marx is a printing specialist in The Woodlands Texas. She started her journalism career in Panola County as a photographer for the local newspaper. A poet at heart she wrote her first book ‘Rhythm’s Fate’ in the winter of 2009. Through her experiences and passion for writing she followed with her second book ‘I’ve Got My Big Girl Panties On’ in the fall of 2010.
Darla is an avid supporter of the John Ritter Research Program in Aortic and Vascular Diseases. A collaboration between The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health preventing premature death due to acute aortic dissection by engaging in ongoing research on the genetic basis of aortic disease, raising public awareness.
She believes in the power of positive thinking, engaging ideas and goals with unwavering determination. She quotes, “The secret to success starts with a dream.”