my journey as a civil war novel writer

Boy was this a year of ups and downs. I started the year cramming for an exam, for my first year degree in counseling & coaching. It involved going through 4 books full of facts and they asked tiny details. I make it! And passed the exam. The next two months I delved into preparations for my practice, I was well on track to start in July and full of confidence and got a lot of work done. In april some breaks were planned. With my then boyfriend and a group of english friends coming over for the elf fair. That is when things started to go to hell in a handbasket. I had some doubts about my relationship for a while now and that was making me unhappy. But it took me some time to voice them because he is such a nice guy and we shared a lot of the same hobbies. Round the same time my dad fell ill and was admitted to hospital. I set every thing aside to be able to take my mum to hospital everyday. For me with the RSI it is physically tough to do that and it meant that I could spend less

I can worry endlessly about money but today I have decided to give some to a good cause. The refugees in Congo. I am so afraid that it is going the same way as the genocide in Rwanda over ten years ago. And that the conflict will reach Rwanda again. This cause is closer to my heart then several others bec ause a good friend of mine is fr om Rwanda. To hear him talk about what happen ed to his family is heartwrenching and it shouldn't happen again. This time I hope the world will not wait and watch but act before it is too late. There isn't much I can do myself but give some money. For dutch people, look here: stichting vluchteling. Today I am going to take it easy, as tonight will be an intensive night. I think I have said before that in preparation for the practice I am following some more lessons and part of that is an intervisie group. Here we help each other with questions from our life and work that we need some help with. Tonight it is my turn to bring in a question. I

Happy samhain to those who celebrate it tonight. Me I don't adhere to one relgion. Wiccan is maybe the closest I have ever felt to a religion but there is alw ays something I don't like. So I create my own. I have a house altar with an i mage of jesus, a rosary, a small buddha and an idian medicine pouch. I would love to add something pagan and wiccan as well. And I take the thoughts and teachi ngs that speak to me and make them my own. It makes me pretty happy. Bookwise I have been a very bad, bad girl. I ordered more books yesterday. It is like a drug, I can't stop. And I like too many genres. The recent interviews on realms on our bookshelves have given me so many new tips again that I could not resist. Yes you may slap me. But reading keeps me sane. It makes me slip away i n fantasy worlds for a few hours. I can salivate over Jean Claude and nobody notices. I prefer books over dvd. When I read I can see the pictures in front of me. I love movies but if I have to choose

I am doing a bit better so today I want to return to the blog. Also because I think one of the reasons of the stress is clearing up. There was some disagreement with a friend that I hold very dear. And I think we are getting closer again. That makes me very happy. Later this afternoon I will send her another email. And then go into to wn to talk about my glasses situation once more and determine how much money I want to spend on them now. I also have two crowns coming up this year and none of these costs were planned. Gulp! But as promised books! I finished a book of lists. Movies made about the american civil war. It wasn't much more then a list with lots of photo's. But it did give me ideas for of the older movies I would still like to see. Not sure if they are available on DVD. I also finished the second J.D. Robb novel, Glory in Death. They are futuristic detective novels and I am really starting to like them. The third book I finished was a dutch book with tips for peole s

Welcome to my blog. I will post here about things that go on in my life and the books I like and read. I am an avid reader and read a lot. Next to that I am working on my own practice in counseling and coaching.That is a difficult process which takes a lot of time. Will keep everyone updated!!!!