Being an Author

The profession of writing is not for everyone. It’s a lot of hard work for very little to no money. Unfortunately we are not all J.K. Rowling or Stephenie Meyers where their books seem to fly off the book store shelves or they become an overnight success with movie deals. Nope, it’s a lot of hard, stressful work to reach that level of success and to make it as easily as a first time author is very rare.

Yes, there is a reason behind this random thought, I just published my first book. Continue reading

Holiday Time

It’s that time of year again; holidays. Always the controversy over whether to say Happy Holidays, or Merry Christmas. Don’t forget you also have Happy Hanukkah, and Merry or Happy Yule. Some of us tend to be over sensitive, thinking others will be offended if we wish them the wrong holiday, so we tend to use the generic Happy Holidays. Yet Continue reading

Adults or Over Grown Children

I know some of you are probably thinking “What the heck is she talking about?” I am not an over grown child. You may not be, I am talking about those times when we have melt downs and turn into a five year old or similar.  Then there are the few adults who never grow up with video game addictions, “man caves” or resort to high school games of Continue reading

Out of Work or Unemployed

I have recently found myself out of work or should I say unemployed.  Now many people think both of these terms are one in the same, but I have found this is not the case. Both are very different and I have recently come to to the conclusion, or should I say a theory, on why people can not get off welfare.

First a short explanation as to why I am currently unemployed.  My employer was the local certified Premium Apple Service and Repair center. Then in December Apple corporate opened up a store at the local mall across the street from us.

Can you guess what happened next? Continue reading

Bullying

Bullying, a subject that has been in the fore front of the national news off and on lately. A subject that is near and dear to my heart also and if you choose to read on you will find out why. I will also be touching on the different forms of bullying from subtle to the bold and what we as human beings with emotions can do to battle bullying.

Bullying can be found in the home as well as in schools and Continue reading