Life is simple. Live. Laugh. Love...and when you can no longer do that...open up a can of whoop ass and make it all better. Life is all about sunshine, rainbows, and sugar free Red Bull.

Two cups of coffee & a sugar free Red Bull later, and book 2 is reformatted for the Kindle! Where did the morning go? I look down at the laptop and the next thing I know it's late afternoon. :)

My coffee products have been restored and my fingertips are itching to get after it. As I await for my eBook cover to be completed, a new idea for a book 3 has come to mind! I'm eager to toss the words onto the pages. Not sure I'll get any sleep tonight.

Today was super exciting! I approved the final cover art. Monday it's being sent for font work. I spent the last 12 hours fine tuning the book description, and making additional edits. As things get closer to public release, I find myself reflecting on the long, but amazing journey. I wouldn't change a thing.

Cover art.

I've found the perfect cover artist!


The forward motion of my life is picking up speed in a wonderful and powerful way. 


Now...I must get back to work! :) Happy day to all!

Life

Life is full of crazy surprises and unseen obstacles. It's up to each individual to choose how they use those blessings or rejections. Either let them define your failures, or as I prefer, use them to strengthen the path into personal growth.

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Life is just a flicker of a moment in time and it's too fleeting NOT to follow your dreams.

My life in a nutshell

Growing up in a small North East Texas town was not my idea of a good time. I was certain that the world was more than dirt roads, BBQ's and tail gates.

Upon graduation from high school, I jumped a plane to Germany, France and Austria. The air was fresh, the people were kind, and the adventure was fun; still, I didn’t find what I was looking for. Moving back to the U.S. and settling down in Pennsylvania seemed like a grand adventure, I was disappointed.

After my first daughter was born, I decided to pack it up and head home. A year later, it was time for daughter number two. After another divorce, I settled in for spinster hood, but the fates had other plans for me.

When an old childhood friend asked for my hand in marriage, I couldn’t resist. Enter daughter number three. The good times, along with the difficult ones, were abundant in our cozy little home. Once the two oldest daughters moved out and on, I took the youngest and dashed off to live with the husband in the Middle East where he’s gainfully employed. Another world adventure had begun. Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Amsterdam…the fun just never stops.

It was during my extended stay in Kuwait, that I decided it was time to toss aside the poetry I’d always buried myself in, and begin the adventure of a lifetime. It was finally time to write the story that had been rattling around in my brain for eleven years.

It was then, sitting behind a laptop in the middle of a foreign country, that I found what I had spent my entire adult life searching for. I discovered my passion…writing. Decades of travel, accumulated photos and pages of poetry that had filled my time, was just preparation for the story that only I could tell. A story that had given itself to me and had patiently waited until I was ready before it could be told.

So that’s the condensed story of my life. As it turns out, the dirt roads, BBQ, rattlesnakes and beer are part of who I am. But without the decades I spent in search of me, I never would have found my story.