As I was working on the computer I had the television on. They just announced a U.S. serviceman was killed in Afghanistan and showed a long wide area in yellow to show the section. My book ‘FOILED” tells about strange things that showed up in a foil project I did fifteen years ago, six months after 9/11, and what was "supposed to" come out looking like abstract art came out with images of scenes of the attack (not really abstract.)

I just put the book out to share the pictures. No one wanted to see them when I took them and I tried telling them there seemed to be hints being made of connections of some kind. One connection seemed to connect the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. At the time I wondered if it was "telling where the Taliban was." Today, the section shown in yellow on TV includes the section shown in my weird photos… It’s too bad no one would listen before and I’m sure they wouldn’t even now but that's why I decided to put the book out so perhaps someone who needs to might actually look into it.

Now here, today,  is the very area shown in my book pictures which came out in simple kitchen foil!

​It’s hard to decide whether ‘Lifting Spirits’ is the first phase of my blogs or if it should be “Perils of Pauline”. It’s a toss up. I have very funny experiences that happen and can lift anyone’s spirits when I tell them about it. I have strange things that occur and weird things that happen or come unexpected through my camera. THEN there are things that happen which should be normal and simple. BUT not for me. The movie back in time “The perils of Pauline” is far from just a title of a movie to me. There is actually a theme that seems to go with the name…at least with me. Eventually I will be writing the occurrences of my adult years in a book . ‘Sparks’ book is from my childhood. The adult book will have so many things which are out of the ordinary that have happened to me that although the book should be ‘Perils of Pauline’, will be “Oh no, Not again”

Just trying to get out three of my books, now, are examples of this phenomena. I have three different publishers for my three books. My one publisher actually has two books to publish and I figured giving them another would seem like they are my personal printer. So I used two others for the other two books. Both of these books have special issues so I thought if one publisher did something wrong at least both wouldn’t. WELL,…I have three books that were to be out June 1st. One got messed up with the printer (plus other issues), One repeated sections of the book three times in the book and left out three sections,  and the other we couldn’t get the pictures to come out the color they had to be. The fourth book is being worked on and even that one has an issue. The person who did these fantastic illustrations for me didn’t read the story close enough and she put the children in snow suits. (Perils of Pauline again, as I had to try to work snow suits into a story of a violent rain storm on Halloween night. It was easier than making her do the sketches again, but took some doing.) Maybe I’m not supposed to be an author. Because my one book isn’t out yet and places to speak were planned, I have ended up talking and put a sign out “Author without a book” ... ha (Just more Perils of Pauline”….oh and I sold three books! Stay tuned….I’m sure there will be more .