Hello everyone. I want to keep everyone up to date with the book progress. I have joined a few writing forum's to help me become a better writer. In the process I have been able to post some of my writing in order to get feedback from strangers as to what they think of the book so far. What I have come to realize is that I need to rewrite much of the book so that I can get Mari's story across the way it needs to. I want others, those who never have had a chance to meet and get to know our … [Read more...]
Updated the first couple of chapters
Hello Everyone, I have taken some of the feedback given on the first two chapters and have revised what I had. I look forward to hearing more feedback. Thank you. Click Here to read the preview … [Read more...]
Please let me know which book cover you like best
Hello everyone. I have created several different covers that I need to get everyone opinion on. I have the one directly below this post as the first one. I have several more in here. If you like the one in the post below please reply to that tread by saying you like that one best. However, if you like on of the ones I am going to post in here please say the letter of the one you like best. I truly appreciate all your help on this. As I know the words will be hard to read on the graphics, here … [Read more...]
New Possible Book Cover
I am needing help…
I am needing some help with the title for Mari’s book. Just using her eyes, I would like to come up with something short and to the point. If you have a suggestions, please click "other" and provide it in the blank space. Thank you. To give a brief synopsis of the book, it is about her life the first part, then what happened to her in the hospital, the grief journey I have gone through since her death, a dedications chapter and a fictional story at the end of the book that helps to think of … [Read more...]
Women’s Retreat third entry
The start of a new day. It is a beautiful day but to look outside you wouldn’t know it. Our cabin is off the mountain side and you can see all the other beautiful log cabins around us USUALLY. This morning looking outside our bedroom window everything is in a major fog. It is interesting how it can just come and envelope the area like this. Fog is kind of representative of our own lives. Everything can be beautiful and then all of a sudden something happens in your life and the fog can … [Read more...]
Women’s Retreat second entry
I sit here really missing Mari tonight. I brought with me to the women’s retreat her photo album of her last day, I just sat here going through it. I was not really sure if I should bring it or not but was glad I did. Reading that story tonight about that woman who lost her baby brought up all the memories of her last day. I sat here crying as I went through it. I miss her so much and love her so much. I look at those pictures and it brings me right back to that very day. It is still … [Read more...]
Women’s Retreat first entry
Keith and I have been attending our new church. We have really been enjoying it. The church has a women’s retreat that happens to be this very weekend. We left this morning around 9:30am and finally arrived in Tennessee around 5:45pm. I drove one of the other women’s Suburban. Man, that was truly a long drive and my derrière was so incredibly happy once we finally got here (I think it may have even been secretly dancing). I went upstairs and found my room. This cabin is really nice … [Read more...]
The Waiting Game
I sit here at work on my lunch thinking about my upcoming afternoon. I am anxious because of what I must do. I have an appointment at 3pm with a security investigator to get my security clearance. I have to get this for the tentative job I was offered as a government service worker on Fort Knox as a GS-5. I am excited about the new job because I will get to be an administrative assistant again and I will get to quit Wal-Mart. I have been a department manager at Wal-Mart for the past 6 … [Read more...]
several entries coming…
I want to first thank all of you who read Mari's site. I have a special journal that I write in at work that are meant to be posts here on Mari's site. However, I have let many build up without typing them up. I wanted to get them up all onto the site today. I started writing them back in October. So that they stay in the order written, I will post them all with today's date. I have 7 entries without any dates at all. Those were written some time after October 19th and before December … [Read more...]
