Thanksgiving

     Happy Thanksgiving to anyone taking time to read this. I really hope it is happy. Usually I'm pretty excited around the holidays, I love being with my family and seeing everyone. Lately that hasn't been the case. There is just so much drama and so much fighting it bums me out and I don't really want to be around it.
     I'm a real peace loving soul, I enjoy harmony. When things are good and everyone is getting along I am on cloud 9! I love to keep the peace and hate conflict! I value honesty and loyalty and strive to live by those principles, (if you want someone to tell you your crappy hair cut is good, I am not the one to ask!) I hate telling lies and try to always be honest, and I can't stand a liar!
     All of that is why this year I am really down. I have a very large family, getting us together means you need a big house with lots of parking! But everyone is fighting and angry, creating drama and spreading rumors about each other. It breaks my heart. I miss when we were all happy together, we've always teased and picked on each, and to outsiders it sometimes seemed cruel, but there was always love in it.
     This year Thanksgiving just isn't the same. And it's been like this for a couple years now. Every year it just gets harder to make myself want to spend time with the people I love. All the tension makes me sick. At least there's the Macy's parade...

Introduction

      I love my husband and the career I've chosen, but recently I decided to be daring and follow a dream. I have always loved reading, and writing, but somewhere in the last 5 years I lost that part of my life. Not the love of it, just haven't done much of either. I missed it, it left part of me feeling very sad. But I'd make myself busy and try to forget about it, or say I'll get to it later. And when I did try to sit down and write, I had nothing, my muse was gone. Or perhaps I just didn't know how to each that part of myself any more. Regardless of which it was I thought the dream of writing would never come to pass.
     Several days ago, almost a week ago now. My husband found out about publishing ebooks via amazon. I looked it up. It seemed so simple and easy. All the sudden inspiration hit me again! My mind has been buzzing with ideas that are begging to be written down, and I don't want to stop writing! It's incredible to me that all the sudden my dream is alive again!
     I don't expect to make it rich as a writer, I'm not planning on quitting my day job. I just want to share my love for writing with others. I want to be able to look my reflection in the mirror everyday and say you did it! You followed your dream and put it out there! You are a writer, and you are published! I don't care if I make a dollar, just knowing I did what I always wanted to do would be amazing!
     I am hoping that through this blog I can share bits and pieces of the story I am developing ( and hopefully get some feed back) as well as share some of thoughts and feelings.

Thanks to anyone taking the time to read this!