It'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.

Wishes and Dreams

I 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.

GIVING 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.

Writing 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!

BAD 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.'

HARDSHIP!

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.  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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

                                                   MAY GOD BLESS, AND KEEP YOU SAFE!

DISASTERS!

DISASTERS!

Have you thought about it? Really thought about how many disasters there have been in the world?

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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

                                                                                MY GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU SAFE.

 

Sunday

Sunday

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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            Have you ever thought about what times would be like twenty years from now? When they have children? What will the children play then?

            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.

MAY GOD BLESS!

A Day Of FUN!!

A day of fun!

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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

MAY GOD BLESS!

A Great day of FUN!

A day of fun!

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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

MAY GOD BLESS!

THE BRASS RING!

The Brass Ring!

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.

            But what people didn’t know was the ring was place strategy 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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

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.

“May God Bless!”

 

Disappointment!

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?

            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.

            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.

            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,  we do manage to pull through. If not we seek emotional help from a professional.

            Well, I’ve made a lot of lemonade and without sugar it really is sour!

MAY GOD BLESS!

Life!

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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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!

            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.

            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.

May God Bless!

The Holidays

Every 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?
       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.
          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.
           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?
            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.
            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.
               HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE, WHERE EVER YOU ARE.


                                                          MAY GOD BLESS!

HOPE?

Hope?

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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

                                                MAY GOD BLESS!

Imagination

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?

            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.

            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.

            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.

            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.

MAY GOD BLESS.

Canadian Thanksgiving Monday

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.

            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.

            The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in 1578 in Canada 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 Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the rebellion.

 The In 1838, Lower Canada used Thanksgiving to celebrate the end of the Lower Canada Rebellion. 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.

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.

MAY GOD BLESS!

Todays blog is abut FEAR. As children we’re afraid of the dark, strangers, and  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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

MAY GOD BLESS!

BLOGGING!

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  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.

                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  dollars also.

                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.

                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.  

                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.

                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.

                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.

MAY GOD BLESS!

Weedends

Weekends

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.

            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?

            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.

            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!

            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.

            Well, I hope you enjoyed this blog, for me the weekend is gone and it’s back to work.

MAY GOD BLESS!