I’m Back! I survived!  Are you surprised?  New York City was my Mount Everest – and I climbed it! Would I be lying if I told you being in the Big Apple was as easy as going into the town I currently live in?  It would be only a small stretch of the truth.  Everyone had me so frightened.  I wasn’t sure whether I would die at some bus depot or in the city itself, but I was just sure I was going to die. So, why did I go?  Why do hundreds of people climb Mt. Everest every year?  To prove something, anything, to themselves.  I am stronger, not because I conquered the city.  I am stronger because my faith that I would be fine, rather I lived or died, grew stronger.  It was not a test for God, but a trust in his judgement for my own inadequacies, driving me to take this risk. I guess you would call this a mid-life crisis.  I needed to prove to myself that I would not …

Mutants = monstrosity; mutation I recall watching the movie Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger and later with, Colin Farrell in 2012. Those people affected by the atmosphere were giving birth to children with three breast, multiple arms, and a second person growing out of the middle of their chest. The disdain for these people was harsh and cruel. Still, somehow, they figured out how to live among the “normal” people existing on their planet. We have become people that encourages mutation. I just heard that some stores are no longer clarifying whether a Halloween costume is for a girl or a boy. I also, understand, homosexuals are fighting for pictures to be displayed on packaging with boys wearing “girls” costumes, and girls posing in “boys” costumes. How do we determine what are girl’s clothes and what is boy’s clothes? If we go back in time, men often wore long gowns, flocks, etc. At that time, that was what a man wore! Men decided they preferred to wear pants –in many, if not most countries. It …

I’m going to go!  Well, I think I’m going to go.  I’m pretty sure I’m going.  Where, you ask?  New York City.  Why? Oh, it’s too silly even to tell you, but I will.  It is a matter of striking out to do something you really want to do, despite it seeming impossible.  If I accomplish this, and don’t die -I will be stronger! It is time I stopped relying upon others to carry me through.  When I am in doubt, I always have them to lean on.  There is no one to lean on now!  I’ve asked everyone I could think of to attend this event with me, and everyone turned me down.  Sure, their reasons were legit, but it leaves me facing this scary trip alone. Am I scared?  You bet!  I’m terrified!  The Big Apple is a potentially dangerous place to be a single woman wandering the streets.  Streets that are foreign to my eyes. People that are aliens in nature, compared to myself. Still, my niece just went to Harvard for a year of …

Recently, with the soon to be release of my book, The Living Miracle A Love Story, I’ve been trying to learn everything I can about marketing my book and myself.  So I started following a podcast and blog of a successful entrepreneur who tells you how to accomplish this. At first, I wasn’t sure this was a good fit for me because I’m trying to market a novel, where he has an actual product that he sells online.  Okay, that sounded dumb!  Let me try it again.  At first, I didn’t think it was a good fit for me because I’m trying to sell a novel, online, and he sells actual products people fill they need. No, I’ve not lost my mind.  As I thought about all the angles of why I shouldn’t watch his podcast, I came to realize that these were the reasons I should watch them.  I, too, have a product that I will sell online, and I am really hoping that each of you will see a need to buy it. …