tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76416364114572038082024-02-07T02:45:23.010-08:00Laura BurkeLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-53126204100659604712021-07-25T04:48:00.000-07:002021-07-25T04:48:10.156-07:00It's been a while since I've written a blog to all. Have been very busy the pass two months. Have a new series coming out. JOLENE a private detective. book one is finished and will be out hopefully in the next couple of months. I've started book 2 in the series and Jolene is up to her neck in trouble. I hope everyone will read this new series and get into helping Jolene find the mystery to solve the cases.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-49281059684767997832021-01-23T15:16:00.001-08:002021-01-23T15:23:26.026-08:00Wishes and DreamsI throw with care my wishes and dreams into the wind,
To carry I ask to be carried to thee.
My wishes and dreams pure and true, as I ask so shall it be.
Not for myself, but for others I quest,
My heart pure and true you must see,
just as my father’s heart was true like his father,
my dreams to become real, and my wishes fulfilled,
this I ask so mote it be.
My wishes and dreams I whisper into the wind to carry them.
To the breeze to make sure they reach the one who can make them
Come to be, I ask for others and for me to be heard.
This I ask as I send my wish to be, so mote it be.
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-68456869309781748502021-01-17T05:15:00.002-08:002021-01-17T05:15:44.664-08:00GIVING AND SHARING!Giving? Have you ever thought about that word? When was the last time you gave to someone? Including yourself, or someone you didn’t even know.
Today in our busy lives we sometimes forget to give to others including ourselves. With this virus going on it’s hard to share but even a plate of home baked cookies to someone like a neighbor or an elderly couple is greatly appreciated.
Thinking of others is hard with our busy lives, but we need to step back once in a while and think of the little old lady or man down the block that lives alone and has no family. When was the last time you just said hello to them, or asked if they needed anything?
This is giving and sharing. I’m just as guilty for I never think of someone down the block or my neighbors. This I’m trying to change and think of others. I’m even thinking of myself and giving to others helps me feel good and makes me think I’m giving to myself as well.
So next time you walk into the grocery store or any other store, even wearing your mask, smile under it and say hello. This makes you feel good and will make that person feel good that someone spoke to them even feel good.
Too many people are grumpy and feel mad at the world. Someone speaking a soft word to them can change there their whole day.
So the next time you are out and about think about it.
Giving and Sharing. My God Bless. Stay safe and healthy.
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-588881051807444542021-01-10T04:49:00.000-08:002021-01-10T04:49:04.103-08:00Writing a Novel!Writing a novel becomes like work, but enjoyable work when you love doing something which gives you pleasure doing. It involves a lot of patients too.
Sometimes it’s hard doing the research for a pacific scene or making sure the characters in your novel are correctly dressed for the time period you are writing about.
You say what does their clothing have to do with how they look? It’s very important. You won’t want a lady dressed as the queen of England in the fourteenth century dress when you are writing about the twenty first century. It would look pretty silly.
Just like the scenes in you novel. You wouldn’t want the ocean rushing to the shore when you have your characters climbing a mountain in the Ozark mountains. There is no ocean in sight.
The importance of making sure you have the scene set and the period appropriately dressed is very important for the mind of the reader so they can relate to your scene and your characters. Even the vehicles they drive if you have a car chase in your novel.
So remember the readers are very smart and they catch these little things. Even the weather is sometimes very important. Was it snowing in the middle of summer? You laugh but without being careful this little slip in a very serious novel can make the reader wonder what the heck you are doing.
So if you are reading a novel, check it out. See if the time frame fits the characters and the the surroundings are in the right era.
Happy reading to all of you folks.
MAY GOD BLESS!
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-15214546960895828382020-09-26T06:23:00.001-07:002020-09-26T06:23:18.993-07:00BAD DAY!Have you ever had a bad day? That just didn't seem to go away? Day after Day it just continues to plague you!
They say we make our own luck, whether its bland or rich. I wish for the later, rich! There are so many things you can do if you're rich. That's one thing I wouldn't do is throw away anyof it. With bills stacking up and more coming in evry day. Monthly receipt going down and less money coming in which really hurts.
So if we make our own luck, I must be holding my mouth wrong for my luch seems to never chance for the better, it just gets worse.
Anyway, its not all bad. At lease I'm working and in good health. I hope and pray everyone out there stays safe and well. My prayers for all of you beric h with family and keep distance from others.
'MAY GOD BEST.'Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-33223642173724504892020-04-26T06:21:00.000-07:002020-04-26T06:22:23.467-07:00HARDSHIP!<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hardship, we all feel the effects of this pandemic and we all wish it
would soon get over with. Everything we do somehow affects our mental
state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We go out to the movies, go out
to eat, do shopping and many other things. With this going on we have stopped
do anything but stay at home. Going outside in our back yard or walking our
dogs, but staying a good six feet away from any other dog walker.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes, even speaking
to our friends or neighbors has stopped unless it’s through texting, or emails.
After a couple of weeks everyone becomes depressed or angry over the situation
and just want it to stop.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We’re all in this
together and we all have to support one another in this time of need. People
who are going through depression need to reach out to help lines to help them
through this time of need.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now I know what
you are thinking. Speak to a consular or a skink? I’m not crazy why should I
speak to one of those guys? The answer is simple. They can help relieve some of
the pressure you are feeling.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We’re all in this
together. We’re all feeling the same thing and we’re all in this together. Asking
for help isn’t a sign of weakness like you might have thought. It’s a sign of
strength. Knowing you need help and asking for it. There are many hot lines to
call. So if you are feeling depressed or a lot of anxiety then ask for help.
There their for a reason, it’s doesn’t mean you are weak.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> MAY GOD BLESS, AND KEEP YOU SAFE!</span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-89039981157983022212020-04-11T08:48:00.001-07:002020-04-11T08:48:51.305-07:00DISASTERS!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">DISASTERS!</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have you thought about it? Really thought about how many disasters there
have been in the world?</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every generation goes through some type of disaster. Whether it’s
sickness like the flu, which killed thousands or polo that affected thousand of
children before there was a vaccine.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How about the wars,
here in the United States a long time ago or the wars overseas our brothers,
fathers, and husbands fought in. Think of how many soldiers have been killed.
From World War I through the war we fought recently. How many families had to
bury their family members. This was also a disaster.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Floods, Fire,
illness and global warming also fall into the category of disasters. Think
about the stories your Grandparents or great Garand parents past down through
the generations to generations, even the plague falls into the category of disasters.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From drought, to
locus, floods, and bad crops effecting families. Every so many years disasters hits.
Earthquakes, volcano’s to seismic waves happen without warning most times, and
even tornadoes. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I remember my father back in the fifties things were so bad he killed
rates for a silver dollar a day. I also remember my grandparents meeting the
food truck once a month for power milk and a box of cheese. What do you
remember about your childhood.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Was your childhood,
filled with similar stories? Or, did you have the great life of the rich? It
doesn’t matter if you did, you still could experience the effects of a tornado or
hurricane, even a flood. My children will tell their children and great grand
children about the terrible house fire that burnt our house to the ground. Leaving
nothing but ashes to shift through to find anything of value left behind only
to find nothing that hadn’t been destroyed.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes it doesn’t
matter whether you are rich or poor we can all find some sort of disaster in
our lives and if none have occurred to you yet, be prepared it will. Now, or in
the future you will experience some sort.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It depends on how
you handle it. Whether you dust yourself off and go on or sit down and feel
sorry for yourself. It’s up to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>MY
GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU SAFE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-41804250972587519262020-03-29T07:17:00.002-07:002020-03-29T07:17:38.782-07:00Sunday
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sunday</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Someone asked my why I write my BLOG on
Sunday. I really didn’t have an answer. I found Sunday to be the most logical
day for me to be free of the work-week and the day I can concentrate on writing
my blog. It is the day, I can think of what I want to write. Come up with
something I hope that everyone can read what I write.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes,
I seem to be rambling on. That’s what blogs are for. Not necessarily to ramble
on, but write interesting things. If you don’t have anything interesting to
say, oh well.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
month of March has gone by so fast I can’t remember the start of it. I do know
I hate the time change. But every year I hate the time change. I wish they
would just leave it one way or the other. It is always so hard to get use to.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
is nice the sun stays up longer, and when you get home from work you still have
time to work in the yard or just sit out and enjoy the outdoors. The days
become longer and the heat rises. The children like the days longer for it
gives them more time to paly before bath-time and going to bed.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
have ten great grand children and they all feel the same. It’s great to see
them out playing all the childhood games that I use to play when I was a young
girl. Although my children and my grandchildren plus my great grandchildren
think I was never a young girl.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Playing
hide and seek, red rover, rover send blank over. Jump-rope and hop scotch and
don’t forget jacks where all games we played. Now the kids today have cell
phones and Ipads, throw a couple of computers. This is how the kids of today
spend there time. I guess everything changes with time. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Have
you ever thought about what times would be like twenty years from now? When
they have children? What will the children play then?</span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With
the country in lock down and everyone becoming locked up in their homes, things
like cards and board games should bring back memories of the past and younger
years.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD
BLESS!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-63052144215878909382020-03-01T05:19:00.000-08:002020-03-01T05:19:06.992-08:00A Day Of FUN!!
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A day of fun!</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I had the chance to talk to a group of
people at “Tell Your Story” at the Coconut Creek Library this Saturday. It is
always fun to talk about something you love. I love writing and keep readers
guessing as to who done it.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
most people think I’m the quiet type, those that know me really well, think I
talk too much. And others whom have never met me, well, they have yet to form
an opinion. When they get a chance to really know me, their opinion chances.
Whether it’s good or bad it doesn’t matter to me for if people are talking
about you, well, it deepens the inquisitive mind as to who you think I really
am.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s
fun to keep people guessing about who you really are. That’s the fun of keeping
people guessing. The same about writing a book, you can start out weak, or
strong, but trying to keep people from going to sleep while reading your novel
is the trick.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Throwing
some red herons in the mix will keep them interested and turning the page. They
will not be able to put it down for they have figure out your next move. The
laugh is on them for you are two steps ahead of them all through the novel
until the very end.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
lot of people this day in time, now chose to have audio books they can listen
to, on the train, in their car or on their daily work-out routine. Me, myself,
I like to do it the old fashion way, holding a book in my hands and reading it.
Why I even like reading to my pet Skipper, who is my touchiest critic. During
our editing sessions, he always falls asleep on me. If he hears the excitement
in my voice he stays away. If I read slowly and not to fast it puts him right
out.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well,
enough of my ongoing, spill over into the next chapter. I hope you enoyed my
talk yesterday if you attended my PI talk, and if you didn’t I hope you enjoyed
the book fair and all the presentation that were given.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD
BLESS!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-12234335892132987712020-03-01T05:18:00.000-08:002020-03-01T05:18:00.028-08:00A Great day of FUN!
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A day of fun!</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I had the chance to talk to a group of
people at “Tell Your Story” at the Coconut Creek Library this Saturday. It is
always fun to talk about something you love. I love writing and keep readers
guessing as to who done it.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
most people think I’m the quiet type, those that know me really well, think I
talk too much. And others whom have never met me, well, they have yet to form
an opinion. When they get a chance to really know me, their opinion chances.
Whether it’s good or bad it doesn’t matter to me for if people are talking
about you, well, it deepens the inquisitive mind as to who you think I really
am.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s
fun to keep people guessing about who you really are. That’s the fun of keeping
people guessing. The same about writing a book, you can start out weak, or
strong, but trying to keep people from going to sleep while reading your novel
is the trick.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Throwing
some red herons in the mix will keep them interested and turning the page. They
will not be able to put it down for they have figure out your next move. The
laugh is on them for you are two steps ahead of them all through the novel
until the very end.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
lot of people this day in time, now chose to have audio books they can listen
to, on the train, in their car or on their daily work-out routine. Me, myself,
I like to do it the old fashion way, holding a book in my hands and reading it.
Why I even like reading to my pet Skipper, who is my touchiest critic. During
our editing sessions, he always falls asleep on me. If he hears the excitement
in my voice he stays away. If I read slowly and not to fast it puts him right
out.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well,
enough of my ongoing, spill over into the next chapter. I hope you enjoyed my
talk yesterday if you attended my PI talk, and if you didn’t I hope you enjoyed
the book fair and all the presentation that were given.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD
BLESS!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-84994176875544961622020-02-23T07:17:00.004-08:002020-02-23T07:17:58.091-08:00THE BRASS RING!
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Brass Ring!</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have you ever heard of the Brass Ring?
Long time ago on the Merry-Go-Round they had set-up on a par a semi brass ring
and the object was as the merry go round came around you were suppose to grab
the ring. If you got it, well you would win either money or life time rides on
the Merry-Go-Round.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
what people didn’t know was the ring was place </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">strategy</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
just far enough away so it was unreachable. So no matter how hard you tried to
reach out and grab it, it was impossible to grab. This was a marketing tool
used to get you to buy more rides. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
the price of a ticket to ride as only ten cents but that ten cents would turn
into a dollar and than two dollars before they would give up. Think about it,
ten cents or one dollar was a lot of money back in the thirties and forties.
Why, the premium for a life insurance police was ten cents a month for a life
insurance policy.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
fellow wanting to impress a girl would spend his whole weeks pay check just for
one more try. Most of the time He would fail and get off the ride, broke,
disappointed, and angry that he had failed.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How
many times in life do we try to grab that brass ring? Buying a lottery ticket
every week for that one chance it will be the winner! The numbers come up and
no, it wasn’t the right one. The next week, next month, the next year, maybe it’ll
be the right one. But for most it never comes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, don’t be
discouraged, one day that ticket might just win. Maybe you’ll be the one to
grab that brass ring. When, the time is right, and the planets line up in the
right order it just might be possible. As I tell my children, never give up, try,
try, and try again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“May God Bless!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-25665332611310457582020-02-09T04:51:00.001-08:002020-02-09T04:52:06.829-08:00Disappointment!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">How many times have you been
disappointed in your life? One, two, three times? I mean really disappointed.
Me I’ve been disappointed more times than I have fingers and toes. Life has a
way of letting us down or is it because of something we’ve done?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
you find out the news you were expected was the opposite of what you were
looking for do you cry? Do you become angry? Or do you just crawl into a hole
and slowly show in your body language you are not happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
tell my children that old saying, when life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
This is little comfort to them and to me. When your child is upset it tends to
make us upset also for we can’t make it better. Who makes us feel better when
we’re upset? Nobody! Somehow we get over it and move on with our lives. It
takes a lot to cover up our disappointment, but we do move on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
adults we’re expected to be strong, courageous and hold our heads up high. Most
of us can, but it isn’t easy. We have to become super humans at times. It can
be very taxing on our physical being and to our emotional stability. Somehow, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we do manage to pull through. If not we seek
emotional help from a professional.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well,
I’ve made a lot of lemonade and without sugar it really is sour!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">MAY GOD BLESS!</span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-41061284727101017062020-01-19T08:58:00.003-08:002020-01-19T08:58:51.264-08:00Life!
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Life? Have you ever stopped to think
about your life? When you are in your mothers’ womb, you are cradled with love
and protection from harm. When you are born your mother and father watch over
you, feed, clothe, keep you warm, protect you from danger and give you all the
love they can share.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once
you start that first day of school at age five, your mother cry’s because you
are growing up fast. That is in her eyes, your eyes think only about the fear
about being away from you home, mother and all the protection you’ve known for
the past five years. You are becoming independent and making friends that will
last through all your school years. If your family doesn’t move.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next
comes your teenage years, these are very difficult for you are now changing
physically and emotionally. Becoming opinionated, about your views and
passions. Looking at life in a completely different line of thought. The
opposite sex is now on your mind and dating. Then comes the first love of your
life. The famous saying, “I love you” goes through your mind and if you break
up, “I’ll just die!” But we all know you will never forget your first love, but
there will always be other loves in your life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Your
parents believe it or not, hurt right alongside you when you hurt, they hurt also.
Then comes college. Your mother again cries when you leave home for the first
time. She knows she can’t protect you from the world and you are now on your
own so to speak. This is the first time you are truly on your own. Your parents
have tried to prepare you for this all of the seventeen or eighteen years of
your life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You
are now considered an adult! Whoopee! Although you have dreamed of being an
adult, you still have questions on how the world really works and yes you will
make mistakes, but that is life. We learn from our mistakes, or we’re suppose
to learn from them. Some of us are hard headed and have to make the same
mistake two or three times before we learn what that listen was. Thank goodness
for our parents, for we can always pick up a telephone and say help!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
you are through with college and you take your first job, get married, and have
that first baby. Your life has now gone full circle as to what your parents had
gone through. Yes this is life. It depends on you as to how hard it is or how
easy it becomes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes,
you should think back at your life from the first steps you took to present
day. How has your life turned out? Easy or hard, it is your life and it is what
your family remembers about you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">May God
Bless!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-90706483310183766432019-12-15T07:47:00.001-08:002019-12-15T07:49:49.001-08:00The HolidaysEvery body likes to celebrate the holidays. But Why? Its the end of the year and everyone knows that with the end of the year means, THE TAX'S will follow. Then comes the question do I have enough deductions to get something back from the IRS? or am I hoping to owe UNCLE SAM money?<br />
Yes the Holidays are filled with fun, parties, and gift exchange. Shopping for the perfect gift for the love ones and the children. Then comes the Uncles, Aunts, Grandma and Grandpa. Before you know it, the credit cards are maxed out and then he thought of oh no, I have to pay this back next year.<br />
Yes the holidays are filled with fun, over eating the sweets and holiday meals. The gaining of ten to fifteen pounds that with the new year you know you will half to lose after the first. of the year. It will be one of your New Yeas resolutions.<br />
What will be your New Year Resolution? But more important, how many of those Resolutions will you keep? One, Two, maybe three out of a list of things you want to change in the New Year?<br />
I myself never make Resolutions for I know I can't keep them. Our world is always changing and it's best to live each day to the fullest and never make list you know you can't keep.<br />
Well I won't bore you with my negative thoughts on the holidays. I wish everyone whether they celebrate the holidays or not to take care, don't drink and drive, always have a designative driver if you go to a party where there is plenty to drink so you get home safely.<br />
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE, WHERE EVER YOU ARE.<br />
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MAY GOD BLESS!Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-88436181878877318762019-11-30T05:01:00.003-08:002019-11-30T05:01:27.008-08:00HOPE?
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hope?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How many times have you hoped for
something, or wished for something that you really need? Not just for material
things, but for health, better living conditions, or just a way to be able to
sleep at night without worry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
know the feeling, I haven’t slept a full night in a couple of years. I hoped
things in my life would get better, but the worry keeps me up most nights. With
only a couple of hours of sleep a night my body and my mind show the wear of
lack of sleep. Even eating I have a hard time, with only one meal a day to keep
me going.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes,
I know the empty feeling of hope which doesn’t describe what I feel most of the
time. Yes material things are important, but what about peace of mind? I hoped
for peace of mind for the past couple of years. It always comes down to the
same question, how long can you hoped for life to get better.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
I tell my children, who are grown now and have a life of their own, to keep
things simple and lay it on the doorsteps of heaven. There is always an answer
out there and you just have to wait until the answer is given. It will come,
maybe not as quick as we want, but it will come.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>MAY
GOD BLESS!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-90642552800224551592019-11-03T05:19:00.000-08:002019-11-03T05:19:19.534-08:00Imagination<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Imagination. Do you
remember when you were a child growing up? Did you have an a imaginary friend
you played with? Did you make up stories in your mind and tell to you toy soldiers
or dolls?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
know I did. I like telling stories. Most adults forget how much fun it was when
we were young. Why we could make up stories and even have our dolls or soldiers
talk back to us. Writing a book is the same thing. As we get older we forget
the things that made us happy and we shut out the imagination we had when we
get older.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Writing
a novel is using our imagination to the full extent of our mind. It tells a
story from the beginning to the end. All of it is from our mind. We use that
part of our mind to the fullest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Have
you ever dreamed of having a big house or maybe a expensive car? Dreamed at how
it would feel to be driving it walking through a house filled with fine
furniture? Closing your eyes and seeing every bump in the road speeding along a
winding road hands tightly on the steering wheel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Using
our imagination is how author write their books. This is how writers spend
their time by dreaming of how to start and how to finish a novel. We love
writing and love to tell stories. So don’t lock your imagination away. Dream a
little, this will keep you young and the feeling you had when you were a child.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">MAY GOD
BLESS.</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-87910889648479529952019-10-13T05:46:00.004-07:002019-10-13T05:46:43.755-07:00Canadian Thanksgiving Monday
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Monday is the Canadian Thanksgiving. Different that our
Thanksgiving in America. We celebrate our Thanksgiving in November. There was
an explorer from England looking for the northern pass that found Canada. So he
decided since he was from the old country which they celebrated Thanksgiving
on a certain date that the new land he had discovered they should continue the
same in the new world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Indigenous
peoples in North America have a history of holding communal feasts in
celebration of the fall harvest that predates the arrival of European settlers.
The Smithsonian Institute has noted that some First Nations “sought to insure a
good harvest with dances and rituals.” The European settlers brought with them
a similar tradition of harvest celebrations (for which the symbol was the
cornucopia, or horn of plenty), which dates back to European peasant societies.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The very
first Thanksgiving <b><span style="color: #767676;">celebration</span></b> in
North America took place in 1578 in <b><span style="color: #767676;">Canada</span></b>
when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England. in search of the Northwest
Passage. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World. That
means the first <b><span style="color: #767676;">Thanksgiving</span></b> in <b><span style="color: #767676;">Canada</span></b> was celebrated 43 years before the
rebellion.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In <b>1838</b>, Lower Canada used Thanksgiving to
celebrate the end of the <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=Lower+Canada+Rebellion&filters=sid%3ad2da97cc-186a-6722-aabc-ae55dcd5429a&form=ENTLNK"><span style="color: #001ba0; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lower Canada
Rebellion</span></a>. The Lower Canada Rebellion, commonly referred to as the
Patriots' War by Québécois, is the name given to the armed conflict in 1837–38
between the rebels of Lower Canada and the British colonial power of that
province. Together with the simultaneous rebellion in the neighboring colony
of Upper Canada, it formed the two Canadas were merged into a united Province
of Canada, which observed Thanksgiving six times from 1850 to 1865. During this
period, Thanksgiving was a solemn, mid-week celebration.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So if you didn’t know the history of the Canadian Thanksgiving now you do.
I hope this has been informative. Remember to be thankful for what you have and
the blessing in which you have had the pass year. Happy Thanksgiving to all of
you Canadians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD BLESS!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-69252390071983171142019-10-06T08:09:00.001-07:002019-10-06T08:09:05.735-07:00
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Todays blog is abut FEAR. As children we’re afraid of the dark, strangers,
and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when we do something wrong a spanking.
As adults those fears go away and our fears become larger even if we don’t
speak of them. They still exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The fears we have
as an adult are is my pay check going to cover my bills? Is there going to be a
lay off, and if so will my unemployment check cover my bills. The list can go
on and on. Will I have enough money in my retirement fund be enough to pay for my
child’s college tuition and what do I do if it isn’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How about that
dream of having everything you ever wanted, will it come to pass or will I be
eating dog food in my retirement years. Yes there is a lot of people who are to
old to get a job and are suppose to be in their golden years that buy dog food
and cat food to eat for they can’t afford to buy groceries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s very sad to
think about. It’s a very real thing. They don’t tell anyone and go on acting
like everything is okay. Even their children don’t know the problems their
parents have. Hopefully their house is paid for and they won’t lose it. If not
every dime they get from social security goes to pay for that mortgage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Social security is
very little. When you work all your life and can’t wait until you can sleep in
and go where you want only to find out your retirement isn’t what you thought.
Your plans go out the window. Going to plan B isn’t what you want either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, if you’re
reading this and still working, think hard about when you turn sixty five. Put
an extra ten or twenty in that saving account so you won’t get a surprise when
you retire. At least you will have a little more in your account to help when
you do retire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD BLESS!</span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-8822660686370792972019-09-29T06:52:00.003-07:002019-09-29T06:52:16.323-07:00BLOGGING!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blogging, for must writers Blogging comes easy. For me blogging is
hard. Trying to pick something everyone would be interested in isn’t easy to
me. Trying<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to think of a great blog can
take a back seat and one that I feel hard to get back to if I don’t do it as
soon as I wake in the morning. Putting it off until later is what I do most of
the time, and then I never get back to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I just wrote on
Twitter about the guy who need money for beer and ended up with a millon
dollars and his picture on the beer can, plus free beer for a year. It just
didn’t seem fair he faired so much. I on the other hand am doing a fund raiser
for my granddaughter and have only raised three hundred dollars. Maybe I should
have asked for booze or beer and we would have raised a million <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dollars also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It just didn’t
seem fair to me. My granddaughter needs a kidney and a pancreas. She has two
small children and is really depressed for she doesn’t even know if she will be
around to see Christmas with her children. She isn’t married and her mother is
helping her with the kids. She is in the hospital every other week it seems and
her condition is deteriorating rapidly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s cost a lot
for a donor to be tested and if a match there is the medical expenses for the
hospital, more testing, and the surgery. It can run up to thousands of dollars
out of her pocket that she doesn’t have. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AS I said on
Twitter, maybe I should have asked for BEER or some other kind of booze and I
would have raised more money quicker. There is only one problem with that
request, I don’t drink beer and very seldom drink liqueur. So asking my eyes
for one of those things would be right. Maybe I’m just to honest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well I guess
venting on my blog is one way to cope with my disappointment. I don’t really
think many people read my blog, but once I get it out of my system makes me
feel better. Now all I have to do is worry about finding a donor and maybe one
will turn up in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thanks go out to
all that have given and I pray for your families that you never have to go
through this kind of worry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD BLESS!</span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-37973289141909405302019-09-22T05:34:00.000-07:002019-09-22T05:34:05.456-07:00Weedends
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weekends</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have you really paid attention to how
fast weekends go by? It takes forever for the week to go by and then when the
weekend comes, gee it flies by in the blink of an eye.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
you go out on Saturday night, on Sunday you sleep late and without warning the
sun shines through that window and it’s Monday all over again. The weekend has
flown by without warning. Here you are wondering where did it go?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Week
starts all over again with the same ho hum drum routine. Day in and day out.
Work, work, work, yea the weekend is finally here, opps, there it goes, and you’re
right back to that awful Monday again. Same routine, day after day, week after
week, month after month.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
if you are one of those lucky ones that can take a vacation? Well, congratulations,
the problem with vacations is the same as weekends. It comes to slow and goes
to fast. You plan for a complete year to where you are going to go, what you
are going to do and then when it comes, nothing you really planned on doing
gets’ done!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
you work for yourself, that’s a different story. Forget vacations, forget about
the weekends, for everything you have left to do around your house, yard or
vehicles has to be taken care of on what else? On the weekend. So the weekend
plans are out the window unless you have a yard person, a maid, and throw in a
butler or two. Then you can do whatever you want.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well,
I hope you enjoyed this blog, for me the weekend is gone and it’s back to work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD
BLESS!</span></span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-51529829053136604882019-09-15T06:42:00.000-07:002019-09-15T06:47:22.252-07:00LIFES' CHALLANGES!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Life Challenges</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Have you ever stopped to think about
your life challenges? Talking about good and bad. Life throws us curves
everyday and whether we are ready to take them on sometimes; we have to. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Like today I worry about my family.
Right now, I’m facing the fact which is life or death of my granddaughter. The
doctors have told her she needs to find a donor for a new kidney, hers’ are
shutting down. She also needs a new Panaceas, which you can’t find a donor for
that, it has to come from a person who dies and the organ can be harvested
shortly after death.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">My challenge is how to
get around without walking on my left foot. I broke it two weeks ago. I have
this huge boot on it and not suppose to put weight on my foot at all. It’s
really hard to use crutches and carry anything. So to make things a little
simpler I have a pouch around my neck which is small that I can carry my phone
in. </span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I also work, which I’m
suppose to keep my foot elevated. Try that sitting at a desk! Then there is the
problem with dealing with your clients. They want everything done yesterday, and
you are in so much pain you can’t even think straight. Forget about taking
drugs, they only make you sleepy and make your thought into foggy territory. So
forget the drugs and muttal through the pain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What are your life challenges? On a daily basis, or
monthly, how about the year? Have you thought about it? Is it taking on a new
job? Making a life changing decision? Or maybe just deciding what to have for
dinner. Everyday we face our fears, our hopes and our dreams. Whether it’s
small or large, we pray everyday for a better life and the knowledge to make it
better. It’s up to us to make our life’s better and to face our daily challenges
head on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I’m a writer and my challenges are to help my
granddaughter find that new kidney to keep her alive for her two small children.
To help her, to be able to see another Christmas with them. To continue writing
my mystery novels and to keep my business running to help me pay my bills and
have the type of life I want for my husband and I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s almost like having a bucket list. What’s on your
bucket list? Have you checked off anything on yours?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MAY
GOD BLESS.</span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-40366428570785496152019-08-25T04:50:00.003-07:002019-08-25T04:50:34.709-07:00Summertime!
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Summertime, yes the summer is fading
fast into fall. Soon the leaves on the trees will be starting to turn colors.
The green color will turn into in gold, red and yellow. Than the green carpet
on the grass will slow down and won’t have to be mowed as often as it does in
the summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>School
will be started and the big yellow school buses will be out on the road like a
fine tuned army picking up the children to take them to school. Lessons to
learn, but their minds on the summertime things they did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
parents, we don’t think of anything but the work we still do everyday, day in
and day out. October will be just around the corner and the nip in the air. It
marks the beginning of winter, Halloween, and other times to come. Yes, winter
right around the corner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
first snowfall, it blankets the ground like a well placed blanket. Pies and
cakes being made to prepare for Thanksgiving, the huge turkey in the oven with
all the trimmings on the stove. But wait what comes next you ask? Why that old
jolly man in the red suit, driving a red sled pulled by tiny reindeer. The
smell of the Christmas tree. It fills the house and all those brightly colored
packages under the tree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
the New Year will begin. We say goodbye to another year gone by. We start all
over to wait impatiently for summer to begin again. Even though we have marked
another birthday on the calendar, we still love our childish things and wish
that summer never has to end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD
BLESS!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-39206905456249811892019-08-11T05:07:00.004-07:002019-08-11T05:07:25.288-07:00Living & Dying
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Living and Dying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How many of you have thought about
living and dying? Be honest, everyone has lost someone they loved to death.
Whether it was a natural causes death or by accident. Most people don’t want to
think about death. But it is as natural as taking that first breath when born.
That is unless it is caused by an accident.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How
many of you have actually have prepared for death? Like writing a will, telling
or writing down what you want when you die. My husband and I have made our
wills and both have discussed what to do with our bodies when the time comes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You
may think this is morbid but this is something everyone should discuss with
their families. You may think to yourself “hey, I’m young and have many years
ahead of me.” Well, my friend you may think that, but someone might disagree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With
all the shootings around us, well, it might be one of those places you find
yourself in and receive a bullet. Or a random car crashing into you while on
the road or in a store. There are so many things, this day and time that can interfere
with us living a long life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Being
prepared for anything that may come along is a smart way to think. Yes, we all
don’t want to think we’re going to die. But, being prepared is smart. This
should be as natural as you planning to drive to work, eating dinner, or taking
that long walk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So,
if you haven’t prepared your will, and what you want with your body when you do
die, think about it and make sure you prepare for that day. It could be
tomorrow, next year, or fifty years from now. At least you will know things
will be taken care of the way you want them to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>May
God Bless!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-26918875056448856652019-08-04T05:09:00.000-07:002019-08-04T05:09:10.998-07:00How to Say Something Nice!
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How to not say anything!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was raising my children, I tried
to teach them not to say anything bad about anyone. Sometimes it was hard for
them to keep their tongues from wagging in a negative way. I always told them
if you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything. Also, to
treat everyone the way you would want them to treat you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s
hard to be nice to everyone especially when some people are just plain rude.
Those are the ones you would like to blow up at. Tell them to get a reality
check. It doesn’t hurt to be nice to them as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not
knowing the circumstances as why they are angry or unhappy, this is why saying
something nice to is a good reason to treat them with respect as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Many
times children treat their parents with disrespect, by screaming at them, never
saying thank you for what they have given to them. Always criticizing
everything they do for them. Instead of being appreciative of how hard they
work to give their children the things they want. Standing up for them and even
defending them with all their heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why?
There is no reason for their brute outburst. Even when children become out of
control. There is always a way to sit down and talk it out, yelling isn’t one
of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
Grandmother always told me, You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So next time you feel like screaming at
someone, parent, stranger, or a friend, think twice before blowing up. Smile
and take a deep breath, walk away until you can get your anger in check and say
something nice.</span></span></div>
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<div align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAY GOD
BLESS!</span></span></div>
Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774995464405173427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641636411457203808.post-32440159102940165702019-07-28T05:08:00.001-07:002019-07-28T05:23:17.269-07:00DEPRESSION<span lang=""></span><br />
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<span lang="">This are what the dictonary has as a Explanation:Depression</span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"> Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">There are a number of factors that may increase the chance of depression, including the following:<span style="color: #666666;">
Abuse. Past physical, sexual, or emotional abuse can increase the vulnerability to clinical depression later in life.
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Feelings of severe despondency and dejection, <span style="color: #767676;">"self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">Common symptoms include: sadness, tiredness, trouble focusing or concentrating, unhappiness, anger, irritability, frustration, loss of interest in pleasurable or fun activities sleep issues (too much or too little), no energy, craving unhealthy foods, anxiety, <span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #767676;"><strong> synonyms:</strong> </span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+melancholy"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">melancholy</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+misery"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">misery</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+sadness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">sadness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+unhappiness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">unhappiness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+sorrow"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">sorrow</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+woe"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">woe</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+gloom"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">gloom</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · <span style="color: #767676;">
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</span><span style="color: #767676;"> </span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+gloominess"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">gloominess</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+dejection"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">dejection</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+downheartedness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">downheartedness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+despondency"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">despondency</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+dispiritedness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">dispiritedness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+low+spirits"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">low spirits</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · heavy-heartedness · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+moroseness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">moroseness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+discouragement"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">discouragement</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+despair"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">despair</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+desolation"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">desolation</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+dolefulness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">dolefulness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+moodiness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">moodiness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+pessimism"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">pessimism</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+hopelessness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">hopelessness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · the slough of despond · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+upset"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">upset</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+tearfulness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">tearfulness</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · the dumps · the doldrums · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+the+blues"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">the blues</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · one's black dog · a low · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+the+blahs"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">the blahs</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · a funk · a blue funk · the mopes · clinical depression · endogenous depression · reactive depression · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+postnatal+depression"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">postnatal depression</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+dysthymia"><span 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<span style="color: #767676;"><b> Antonyms:</b></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+cheerfulness"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">cheerfulness</span></span></a><span lang=""> psychiatry a mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep.</span></div>
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A long and severe recession in an economy or market.<span style="color: #767676;">"the depression in the housing market"<b>synonyms: </b></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+recession"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">recession</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+slump"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">slump</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+decline"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">decline</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+downturn"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">downturn</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+slowdown"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">slowdown</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+standstill"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">standstill</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+paralysis"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">paralysis</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+inactivity"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">inactivity</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+stagnation"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">stagnation</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+credit+crunch"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">credit crunch</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · credit squeeze · hard times · bad times · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+stagflation"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">stag flation</span></span></a><b><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> Antonyms: <b><span style="color: #767676;">(the Depression the Great Depression) the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.</span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #767676;">T</span>he action of lowering something or pressing something down. <br />
<span style="color: #767676;">"depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin" </span>a sunken place or hollow on a surface. <span style="color: #767676;">"the original shallow depressions were slowly converted to creeks"
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<span style="color: #767676;"><b>synonyms: <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+hollow"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">hollow</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+indentation"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">indentation</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+dent"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">dent</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+dint"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">dint</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+cavity"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">cavity</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+concavity"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">concavity</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+dip"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">dip</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+pit"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">pit</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+hole"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">hole</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · <span style="color: #767676;">M</span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+pothole"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">pothole</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+sink"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">sink</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+sinkhole"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">sinkhole</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+excavation"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">excavation</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+trough"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">trough</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+crater"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">crater</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+valley"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">valley</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+basin"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">basin</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+bowl"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">bowl</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+fossa"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">fossa</span></span></a><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> · </span></span><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=define+lacuna"><span style="color: #001ba0;"><span lang="">lacuna</span></span></a> </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #767676;"><b><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""><b><span style="color: #767676;"><span lang=""> <span style="color: #767676;">M</span>eteorology a region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system. <span style="color: #767676;">"hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions<span style="color: #767676;">
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<span style="color: #767676;"><span style="color: #767676;"> But if we're talking about humans, there is several reasons that may cause us to fall into depression, so don't ignore your feelings.
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<span style="color: #767676;"> </span> The death of a loved one, loss of a job or the ending of a relationship are difficult experiences for a person to endure. It is normal for feelings of sadness or grief to develop in response to such situations. Those experiencing loss often might describe themselves as being "depressed."But being sad is not the same as having depression. The grieving process is natural and unique to each individual and shares some of the same features of depression. Both grief and depression may involve intensive therapy.</div>
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You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn't worth living. More than just a bout of the blues, depression isn't a weakness and you can't simply "snap out" of it. </div>
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SO If you think if you feel you might have depression, find a friend to talk to. Don’t feel like you have no options. Talking about the way you feel can help get whatever is bothering you out in the open. If this has been going on for a long time, seek the help you need from a therapist. It doesn’t mean you are crazy, just because you see a therapist, it just means you know you need help.</div>
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I know first hand what depression can do, since I had cancer and the medications they put me on, well, I cry at the drop of a hat, go through anger episodes for no reason, complete shut down at times also. So remember some medications can cause depression also. You if you think it is your medication, call you doctor and discuss it with him or her. Don’t think you are tough enough to go it alone.<span style="color: #666666;"><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"> There are several forms of depression not only in us, as I’ve pointed out in the above explanations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"> So till next week, MAY GOD BLESS.</span></div>
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