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Janine Hill: Her website - www.asmallerricherlife.com "A Smaller, richer Life" offers a new article each month on coping with disabilities.
Computerized Bio-energetic Testing:
I guess sometimes God has a way of knocking you on your butt when you need to listen more. Yes, I too am dealing with M.E and FM, which has been going on since the early 80's. No need to explain the roller coaster that entails. I was born and raised in a small town in Southern Ontario, close to Niagara Falls. My mother is from New Waterford, Nova Scotia. She also loved to write and I feel was a great inspiration to me as well. Unfortunately she died of cancer in 1981. After my book came out I was visiting a neighbour of ours. Just the week before, she had been going through some old papers, etc. She handed me something but didn't tell me what it was. As soon as I opened it I knew right away what it was. It was a poem my mother had written many years ago. Can't begin to tell you what that did for me. It was like a little note saying she was there for me. Very timely and no coincidence as far as I am concerned. While I was staying with friends of mine in Georgia and also prior to that, my friend kept wanting me to write a book. She is the one who inspired me to start writing again and I had no idea how much I had missed it. "A Friend For All Seasons" is a collection of mainly inspirational stories but also some poetry. It has been part of a journey my friend and I have gone through, dealing with life as it is from day to day, as well as being a two person support system figuring out how to deal with M.E and FM and with issues from our past that have caused various blocks in our lives. Our lives paralleled so much that many of the stories came out of both shared and individual experiences. The book started as a gift to her after we had a conversation about how we weren't read bedtime stories as children. Bit by bit I would write short stories or poems and give them to her. Eventually for her birthday one year, I put a bunch of them in a book for her and since then she adds each new item that I write for her birthday, Christmas or whatever occasion would come up. If you would like to see some more information on the book you can go to http://www.trafford.com/robots/03-2466.html - this will bring you directly to the page at Trafford showing my book and giving you more information that can be passed along. The book can be ordered on line or by calling toll free in Canada or the United States 1-888-232-4444. I think they automatically send it Priority Post, but you can request to have it sent by regular mail to save a few bucks. Another option is to order it from any bookstore. Again, the name of the book is "A Friend For All Seasons" by Mary Pendlebury and the ISBN # is 1-4120-1899-5 If you would like any other information please let me know. Many people have said that they have been able to put themselves in the stories. Some are thought provoking, some humorous and obviously some are a little more serious. I have had a wonderful response from people of various ages, male and female. |
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