So I was watching a television episode about women who were stalked. The stories were about some women who didn’t survive and others who did. A lot of people I know worry about how now days there are so many ways to “put yourself out there” especially when it comes to electronic media, from Internet to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more. Although I’ve always thought that it was more likely for me to be stalked by someone who saw me at a grocery store or the in the mall. It made me think when I realized how random most of the cases were. Although it was true that most of...

I recently read another blog article about whether a Memoir is truth or fiction. Since I just finished my Memoir this made me think about my book. While in the beginning stages of writing my book I often wondered how clearly I could remember exactly what had taken place so many years ago. While some memories are more etched with vivid images and recollections of specific conversations, others are more blurred. But the truth of the matter is that the most important aspect of my book, the fact that I totally and accurately remember my feelings during the period of time that I write about, and that my...

Sorry my blog post is not a “Poor Joe Stack” story. I understand being depressed, and this economy is no fun time for anyone, and had Joe Stack posted his letter and then flew into a field and killed himself I’d have been more apt to feel for him and care about his plight. But I will never understand how someone can justify being depressed and down and out and since nothing seems like it will get better they decide to kill themselves and take as many people as they can with them. What did the innocent people in that building do to Joe Stack? This is just my opinion. I’ve...

My youngest daughter has always been somewhat of an introvert in a primarily extrovert family. Most of her childhood I’ve spent trying to get her to join the crowd or become involved in a sport or take dance or order her own food at a restaurant. It’s been difficult since she was a baby getting her to enjoy her day at daycare or preschool and now school. She is now 8 and what started out to seem normal for a young child to be a bit clingy or have a degree of separation anxiety has now turned into more of an issue that actually seems to affect her happiness. While she is generally a very...

I finally did it.. I finally finished my first book! I say first because now I can’t wait to write another. My first book, “Beyond the Present”  is currently in production and will be published and available for sale at Barnes & Noble online and Amazon.com among many other online bookstores and potentially in store shelves by late February / early March. It is a Memoir and so my next book will probably be completely different than the first. I am tossing around the idea of a children’s novel but there are so man things that I could write a book about that I’m sort...

So I started taking an antibiotic (Solodyn) about 2 weeks ago and about a shortly after beginning to take it my scalp started becoming incredibly itchy and my ears would burn like fire. It seemed to come and go and then a couple days later I started to get a welt like rash that appears in stripes like welts and in splotches. It seems like I would break out about 5 hours after taking the medication. So I call my dermatologist and she suggest going off the meds. So I did so about a week ago. Now, I am itching almost everywhere on my body with a rash that comes and goes. Perhaps the medication is...