This is my first blogging adventure! I created this blog because I have a dream of publishing a book that I started writing a few years ago. I have always been a writer on Facebook, writing posts that for quite a while I never knew if anyone was reading. After a while I decided to stop writing them, even though in reality many of the posts were made because it was cathartic for my soul, not because I wanted some big reaction on Facebook.

Well after I stopped writing, for a bit, I made a random post about something and a few people commented about how they missed reading my posts or they thought I had great insight. So it brought me back to posting regularly. Then one day inspiration hit when I stopped at the gas station I worked at once upon a time and I saw one of the old regulars that would come in all the time and who I was friends with on Facebook (what can I say… Small Town living LOL). She had been going through hard times and she said that one of the few things she enjoyed at that time was reading my posts that I wrote.

Of course, that made me want to post more, and I even wrote a book and published it on Amazon. Now I never did any marketing around that book, it was more of a self help or positivity book. At the same time I was working on that book however, I was also working on a book a little closer to my heart. One that let my creativity flow and really let me put my everything into the book. Unfortunately I never finished that book!

This was a book that if I happened to find it at a bookstore or online, that I would want to read and yet I found a reason not to finish it. Now I can easily say life got busy. That was the year it seemed like a personal disaster after a personal disaster hit. I live in central Wisconsin and my furnace broke, then it was my washer and dryer, then I hit a deer, then my Grandma died, then my Dad ended up in the hospital and we didn’t know if he was going to live, then all hell broke loose at work. I was an Assistant Manager at the time and it seemed there was suddenly a mass exodus of people from our department. Some people quit, some people were gone for personal or medical reasons, but all I knew was we were about half staffed and I was working a TON of hours, so my passion for writing took a back burner. After a while I just never got back to writing that book. Part of me knows it is because I was probably about halfway through it and I wasn’t ready to share it with the world.

So what has changed? A couple of weeks ago one of my friends was sharing her art that she was creating with me. We talked a bit back and forth and I told her that she had a gift that she needs to share with the world. Our purpose in life isn’t some big secret like everyone thinks it is. Our purpose is to find the things that we do that bring us joy, that bring us happiness, those things that we are gifted at. Whether those things are art, or numbers, teaching, leadership, cleaning, or writing.

Well she made herself a website and she put it out into the world. Now I need to do the same. I gave her the advice that let her follow her dream, now it’s my turn to do the same. Do I expect to be the next famous author… No. Do I hope that the book that I already spent months working to create and will now spend the next who knows how long proofing what I have and finishing the story will bring someone joy? Yes!! Wholeheartedly YES! For me it isn’t about becoming a millionaire or becoming famous, for me it’s about someone finding their escape or their joy in something that I created. Growing up and even now as an adult, I am a very shy person. I am wholeheartedly an introvert. Now people where I work might disagree because I use all of my peopling ability while at work, but once I get home at the end of the day, I lock myself alone with my 4 dogs and open a book to escape.

Reading has always been my choice for adventure. I can go rescue a princess in trouble, or I can go slay a dragon and take all the gold for myself. I can befriend elves and humans and battle the evil creatures, or I can solve the murder of a friend. The opportunities are endless for adventure within our minds just by reading some words on a page. That is what I want to bring someone. I want to write a book that let’s someone escape from this crazy world we live in. Even if only for a few pages at a time. This is my journey to making that happen!