: About Me

I am a divorced, single woman, living in Michigan.

I have a daughter and 3 sons who I love very much.

I have owned and operated a pet grooming, boarding facility and pet supplies store for 17 years. Although I have enjoyed my career, it has always been my dream to write.

I have completed my first novel. It is a suspense romance novel. Not really knowing what my next step of the process is to publishing, I have put it on the back burner until I make some connections.

Family, loyalty and the ability to trusted and to be trusted is very important to me.

Moving forward with my life and fulfilling my dreams are my goals.

Spending time with my children and reconnecting with myself, is what I have been spending the majority of my time doing. I have given so much of myself to other things and people that I decided I would sort of hibernate away this winter and do the things that I enjoy to do.

I have a lot of hobbies that I like to do. I love riding my Harley, it gives me a sense of freedom like nothing else.

I love to vacation to sunny warm states away from Michigan.

I love to be on my computer - even if it doesn't accomplish a whole lot.

I love to make jewelry and craft with shells.

I love to decorate my home and make little changes to keep it fresh and new.

I love to watch my teenagers grow, although there's days I ask myself why?

Overall, I just love life, I love my family and my friends. I am grateful to have them in my life and lucky that they want me there.

My passion is ...

Is writing

I know too much about ...

Nothing, that's why I love to learn

My parents always told me ...

Do unto others as you would have done to you

My childhood ambition ...

Was to become a corporate lawyer

My favorite memory ...

My Grandma Day, I miss her dearly

Why I write ...

So much going on in the head, I have to let it go.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Broadens my imagination, increasing my ambition to write.

My first job ...

Barely paid the rent

My best moment ...

Was signing my divorce papers

My inspiration ...

Are my Children, My Parents and Friends.

Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss How to help a person cope with suicide of a loved one

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Suicide is the most painful loss a person can experience. It is an unexplainable death that you will never understand. There is no real answer to coping with the suicide of a loved one. The only thing that you can do is to try to move forward and not blame yourself. So often people who have to live with the suicide of another will blame themselves for not stepping in and trying to get that person help. The bottom line is that there may not have been anything you could have done. When a person gets to a point in their life where the only answer to relieve whatever pain they are going throug...

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