Category Archives: For the Book

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Paying It Forward

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Share Recently I got to be part of an unexpected random act of kindness of paying it forward, and at a gas station no less! It was right before Christmas when I stopped to get gas at a Sunoco. While I was getting ready to pump my gas, a woman with a white pick up truck, in a white t-shirt, khakis to the calf, very short hair,  a buzz cut, a butch looking Rosie O’Donnell if you will, starts walking over to me. Of course when someone does that to me, I automatically go into Fort Lauderdale mode and think … Continue reading →

My Life With A Medium

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Share   You would think that my husband being a singer/songwriter was enough for me to deal with as far as being a chick magnet, but NOPE! Apparently that wasn’t enough. Lucky me huh? UGH! He is also a medium, an intuitive life coach a hypnotherapist, and not hard on the eyes, so that makes him the tri-fecta, wait, no, or is it the quinfecta of chick magnets? BTW I was shocked that quinfecta didn’t even come up as misspelled, so it’s actually a word! Who knew? Not me. SO, that makes him the quinfecta of chick magnets, a quintuple threat if … Continue reading →

8th Anniversary Of Our Final Goodbye

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Share When you lose a child, you not only have the day that they passed to get through, you then have the day of their service, or as we called it, the FUNeral service to get through year after year.  And for us, that was our final goodbye to Andrew’s physical presence, the last time I would ever see my beautiful boy physically again this lifetime. Grief, the gift that just keeps on effin giving! Even 8 years later. I usually have more pictures of every International It’s All Good Day! celebration, but this year I didn’t get any and … Continue reading →

READING SPECIAL ENDS SOON!

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ShareFINALLY! We are reading TOGETHER from the Emerald Isle! After 9 months apart, Martin and I are together! Catch us while you can at this limited time special rate! Please feel free to SHARE! by clicking the Facebook or Twitter icon on the left or right, and thank you. To celebrate that Martin is done with treatment, out of hospital, and feeling better, AND that we are together again finally, we are reading together at a VERY special rate! Normal rates are $120 for 1 hour, $65 for 30 minutes, $50 for 20 minutes, which is still a deal for … Continue reading →

My Sweet Lady (PrettyMama)

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Share It was a few days after Andrew’s birthday in May when I had been wondering what direction I should put my energy and goals. I was beginning to wonder if I would ever work with Andrew/PureHeart and Martin again. I mean we haven’t done an event since October 2014. Martin is going to be gone until at least October of this year, possibly longer with his cancer treatment in N Ireland. As time goes on, this bigger picture I thought I was seeing after Andrew left keeps getting smaller and smaller with every Muggle job I have to take to … Continue reading →

Conversation about the Nature of God Part I

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Share Conversation on the Nature of God [perfect_quotes id=”1938″] Players: Friend 1: A born again Christian, and a seeker Friend 2: A scientifically minded realist, and a Spiritualist Friend 3: A Catholic – mostly non-practising, but a very strong woman True Seeker: A student, and contributor to our PureHeart work. Me: A Spiritualist teacher, and Seeker This is the conversation I experienced with some friends of mine on Facebook regarding one of the statements allegedly made by the current pontiff, Pope Francis. I was posting my thoughts as to its validity. My friend is a practising modern born again Christian, … Continue reading →

DIVA-LICIOUS

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Share* Grabs mic and gets on soap-box – “Is this thing on?” *   People have said that I am a Diva. Well if Diva means still standing after nearly losing your 25 year old daughter after emergency surgery on a rare ovarian tumor that they wanted to treat as an aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Then going right into a Leukemia diagnosis with your 16 year old son, then losing him 4 months later. Then suddenly being thrown into menopause at 47 year old so you don’t have a major physical meltdown from all the trauma in the past year. Then … Continue reading →

The Janitor

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ShareThis story is one of the MANY reasons I just adore and love my son’s attitude! He just got shit! While at All Children’s hospital during the summer of 2007, when my son was first diagnosed with leukemia, this 16yo boy thanked the janitor for cleaning his room after Andrew was ripped from his summer fun to be in the PICU on dialysis and chemo and other aggressive leukemia treatment like needles stuck in his spine etc. The janitor left my son’s room astonished saying, “That boy just thanked me! He really thanked me!” My son Andrew asked me why … Continue reading →

Count Down Begins to the 8th Annual Int’l It’s All Good Day Celebration

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ShareThirty four years ago was one of the most magical days in my life watching, helping bring the girl I always dreamed about into my life! And 8 yrs ago was the 2nd most traumatic day in my life! As we were getting ready to meet Elatia at the beach for her 26th bday, I was on cake duty, but first we had to make, what we thought was a quick trip to the walk in clinic for antibiotics for Andrew who had a sore throat & fever. Then we found out we had to go the ER b/c the … Continue reading →

Happy 24th Birthday Muck!

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ShareAndrew’s 24th birthday was last week and as always it is an emotional time for me, especially with Martin being 3,000 miles away, and waking up alone on Andrew’s birthday to the deafening silence. Also the realization that it is his 8th birthday I was celebrating without him physically here. I can not believe he would be 24. The Grief  was all up in my flava that morning! So I had the pity party first and then went on preparing for his birthday. My friend Megan came over around 1pm, so the pity party ended then. She came over early … Continue reading →