Well the makings of a great book sure is difficult when it comes time to be publishes.  All before this was simple compared to the details involved in getting it in print! Today I pick up the final files for the cover illustration. They needed to meet certain criteria and if was a tough road to be on...My illustrator needed sudden surgery and I hated to disturb her healing time so I set out to find a photo finisher to get the scale where we needed it to be to put into print.  The illustrator did such a beautiful job on the cover print I just pray the quality is not ruined in the final outcome....So off to the print shop I will go today at luch and then get the files sent once again to my publisher and wait for a great answer to come back to me by weeks end... I will let you know...the easiest part of this whole process has been the months I spent writing this book...Oh how much I have learned!

Sneek Peek........

When I decided to leave it was as if I had all of a sudden awakened from my coma & saw my life from a different perspective than I had prior. I had thought one day I will be 70 years old & unhappy at the hands of someone else. I would rather be alone & happy than live in a marriage with a partner who made me feel like I was unhappy and alone. Being alone while living with someone is far more alone than actually living your life alone. If I would end up a miserable old woman someday it would be of my own doing not because I allowed someone to do so to me. So I left a marriage to a man I had been with since 1973. ....


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I have been a Christian for the last 32 years and have learned much and I still am learning to this day. Not only by my trials which come my way but when I listen to others stories I try to hold on to something there that could possibly guide me in the right direction. But mostly they help me see that I am not alone out there, many have walked a similar path before me and many will walk this path after me. The main thing is how we get through this path without falling down along the way or turn back…

Have a Blessed Easter!

NEARING COMPLETION!!!!

Just as soon as I get the final copy of the cover illustration for my book off to the publisher it will go & very, very soon after it will be listed on Amazon.com for sale with all the other amazing books out there! I am so excited as I write this! It has been a very great 5 months which I had off work & decided to publish this book. Without this time off for surgery it would have never happened/ Well...that is just 1 reason I wrote the book. (I had the time available) Another reason is because of the choices the ex decided to make with our son & I. I guess in a way I really have him to thank. Because I have never felt so free of him in all my life until I put I had this down in print. It is a good feeling to be even more confident in myself than ever before.

Should you befriend your Ex?

Are you recently divorced? Have you been divorced for many years? Do you still struggle with issues of your ex? This is a way of the world these days. Years ago it was not as common or if it were it was hidden from the world. Today to be married even 5 years is an accomplishment for some. If you hit the 10 year anniversary that is tremendous. I spent nearly three decades with my ex. I hate the word divorce. God hates divorce. When I least expected it to happen in my life it came to visit me. It was my decision to leave an abusive marriage after many years of praying and crying and pleading. It was not an easy path for a 45 year old woman to take who had been a stay at home wife and mother. But it is one I took and I will never look back. It brought me to a new level in my life. I saw the world from a different angle than before. I learned I am capable of things I never dreamed of. I wanted the dream of falling in love, getting married, having babies and being happy ever after…I wanted the fairy tale I had been fed. If indeed I had the happy ever after part I would still be that stay at home wife and mother and I would be darn good at it and love every minute of it. I miss my flower gardens, my house in the country, my kitchen and all the times I would spend cooking and baking. I traded all that in for a townhouse, a deck, flower boxes but most of all peace. I left the tears and yelling behind to go out and explore the world on my own for the first time in my life all by myself. It has been a fun ride. One I feel has been a very positive thing for me. This is my story. We all have a story to tell. I choose to write this as a healing tool for me through this time in my life but when I let a few close friend read some of it they encouraged me to publish it as a book.

I recently wrote a book while off work for 5 months. It has just this week gone to print of the interior. You can go to this link Shame On Me Book and Preview to read more.

Soon to be available for purchase from Amazon.com or from me.