I have some life updates. I am now a Communications Advisory Committee member of The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (ENDCAN). I am a volunteer as an assistant for Tiny Buddha still. I’m volunteering for The Humane League and Butler County Humane Society. I am halfway through…

So I’ve been struggling with accepting my past and letting myself be happy in the present. I cringe and wake up in shock with PTSD for my whole life when I was unstable with Bipolar before I got stable on current meds. The illness was mostly contained, but sometimes it…

Above is a pic I picked out for Tiny Buddha memes! Anyways… An update on my projects and life: My YA, You Are The Reason My Sky Is Blue, is half written and half outlined. I decided Payton is going to sing in broken places and meet people who need…

I finished The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger, holocaust survivor, and wow was it impactful. She references Viktor Frankl and Corrie Ten Boom in it, two holocaust survivors I have also read. She says something interesting. She forgave Hitler (not condone there’s a difference) and said there a Hitler OR…

So I had one last article up for Forbes here. I lost the position because of this piece being off brand and probably too deep. But I have the win that it will stay. Nancy my former manager and I are on good terms. She sent me a LinkedIn recommendation…

So Forbes let me go because my most recent article (thinking about dying one day as motivation to live in the moment) wasn’t on brand. I understand that, but instead of giving me the chance to write something else, they ended my position. It’s interesting because they let me write…

I know what it’s like to lose everything to a bad life circumstance and then rebuild rebuild rebuild and rebrand. I think that shows my dedication, vigor and power. I never let anything overtake me. Even at my worst, I held onto God. I didn’t know I’d be this happy…

So my YA is powerful! I have no idea how to describe but all my best and worst moments are in it- the feelings. It all came together after resurfaced grief came up recently for someone I lost. I have to admit I also became angry at this person for…

So I am halfway done with my YA. It just needs the middle section fleshed out a bit but the whole story is built, the main scenes are written and the set up is done. I’m putting together an outline for the remaining scenes then finishing it. I am researching…