Suspended: Living with Dying is 1 year old! Birthdays are strange things, aren't they? They remind us of where we have been and where we are headed. Sometimes those things are fun and positive, and sometimes they can be hard. Suspended has been quite the journey -...
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The Loom – An Honor
What an honor - the Word Weaver group I have been a part of for years led off their August edition of their online publication with a short article I wrote! https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/456046/128464831434982674 This group has been an encouragement for...
Pros and Cons of Recording Your Own Book
I’d heard at Writer’s Conferences that you shouldn’t record your own book, but I blew it off. It felt like another expense to support the writing industry, so when someone suggested an audio edition of my book, Suspended: Living with Dying, I thought, “I’ve worked...
Covid
Three years ago, the word Covid brought fear and dread. It sounded like a death sentence. Our family did everything we could to avoid it. However, now that things are more lax and medical solutions are available, we have become accustomed to it being a part of our...
Suspended – Sign up for Blog
Blogging is amazing, isn’t it? It captures real-time emotions and information into a relationship of almost daily conversations. That’s what I needed when I was first diagnosed – to express what I was going through and be received by others. It was a whole new world...
Suspended – Reviews on Amazon
Thank you to everyone who has purchased Suspended! I’ve been thrilled to hear the stories. One man stopped me on the way into church, telling me how he cried after reading the first chapter! Another has purchased it for his friend who has chosen to no longer take...
Mouse or Man?
Robert Burns is credited with saying, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” So, am I a mouse or a man? Things sure spun out of control this week. A couple of weeks ago, when I was at the writer’s conference, I hurt my knee. Initial doctor’s visits...
Suspended: Award Winning
My goal has never been to sell tons of books or to win accolades. I want to encourage others who are going through disease, suspended between this world and the next. I’ve read about people finding their “tribe,” the place where they belong. Since I started this...
Suspended is Launched!
Woohoo! After years of living the journey, the book is written and available. Thoughts inside of me have come out. Some have equated writing a book to pregnancy, butmine was much longer and more complex. But like a pregnancy, there is the hope that the book will take...
I’m No Gardener
(This post is from 2015, in case you missed it the first time.) I'm no gardener. It’s always been a desire of mine to be able to have a garden. I remember my early years and my mother's patch behind the garage. I was especially impressed by the row of corn,...
