Archives for September 2011

This is a beautiful Hawaiian word for thank you or gratitude and I wanted to express that to all those people who have contacted me via my website or facebook page.  I love to read your thoughts and opinions and feel lucky to have such a loyal readership.  I tend to post about things I am interested in and hopefully others will be as well.  Sometimes it’s personal but most times it’s of an event or recent research.  As an author of fiction, you are supposed to write about what you know best and I feel I do that.  But within the fiction, must be researched non-fiction facts of which many will be found through-out this website and sometimes incorporated into my writing.  Today my harshest critic read the first third of my second book in the Paige Maddison trilogy and he said it was more exciting and captivating than the first entitled Wake Me Up Inside.  In fact, he said the writing is tremendously better.  Hallelujah!  It’s also a ‘paige’ turner from start to finish, so far.  Keep on posting!  Thank you, again. Lee

A time to return balance into our lives. As day and night become equal and then give way to longer nights, I focus on positive activities. I actually do my spring cleaning in the fall and winter months because we are indoors more and can open the windows, even though it’s a little chilly.  In the past summer months I researched various subjects and am now working hard on writing book two in Paige Maddison’s journey.  However, I also focus my energies on keeping fit physically.  I choose to hula hoop.  You may laugh but try it – a short time in the beginning (if you haven’t done it in awhile) and slowly increase the duration of time.  It’s a great core strengthener!  And this year, I am going to try snowshoeing. Finally, a solution to those of us with asthma performing outdoor activities!  I bought a breathe easy mask to block the cold icy wind.  Fall is a wonderful time to hike and view the ever-changing colourful leaves and winter is a great time of year especially with the beautiful snowfall to look forward to. Expand your mind, trim your body.  🙂

If you ever want to experience a most spiritual journey into a time long ago, please visit Algonquin Park where the wind howls through the trees, the loons call through the day and most nights, and the droppings are there to analyze just what kind of animal is living around the campsite.  For us, it was moose, no Bears!  Of course, we all know they are there living quietly in the distance waiting for the humans to leave and see what is left behind for fodder.  We left our campsite better than when we found it, thanks to my loving husband.  No garbage was left, no bottles of any sort, and wood for the next group to enjoy.  My sister, husband and I had a most spiritual journey canoeing out on our last day.  The temperature dropped dramatically through the night and the wind howled upon arising.  As we canoed home it blew us towards our destination; the mist flowed along the lake, seemingly, in front of us leading the way home.  It was dark and soon to be stormy.  A loon followed us for awhile, another flew overhead and we saw families of loons on the two lakes out and finally a family of mergansers playfully enjoying the lake.  What a signal from above we lived our weekend well and respectfully on Ralph Bice Lake.  Oh yes, and to the bongo players, thanks for reminding us of the passion we humans have for living.