Found Not Lost

THIS IS A GUEST BLOG POST FROM JULIA LONDON, AUTHOR OF ONE SEASON OF SUNSHINE

“…our past is our present and our future, that we are all pieces of our past and our loves.”

This book is about Jane, who goes in search of her birth mother. She takes a job as a nanny for the widower Asher and his two children. She begins to fall for Asher and the kids, but as things heat up, devastating secrets begin to emerge that not only threaten the happiness Jane has found, but her search for herself as well.

I began with the idea of having a woman search for her birthmother, but Jane evolved into a more complex woman than I think I had originally intended. I didn’t want her to be a clichéd orphan looking for happiness. I wanted her to come from a big, loving, family to make her internal conflict that much more compelling. Her mother is a woman who has a lot of love to give, and she, along with the rest of Jane’s family, loves her every bit as much as if she’d given birth to her. She reminds me of a friend of mine who is in the process of adopting a child from China. She already loves that little girl and she’s never even touched her. I think some people are just wired to give love to children.

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I have a house full of teenage girls. I dont’ know if you realize the significance of that one statement but if you are clueless as to the magnitude of having a house full of teen age girls mean, you are welcome to call my husband so he can give you his view. We have so much drama, we may as well start charging admission to our house. But then, who would want to pay to watch daily whines and hormone fluctuations?

Something as miniscule as a zit can trigger a meltdown. So can you imagine if an acne breakout ever occurs? Luckily, I was blessed with good genes and I have never had any problems with acne, just some minor pimple incidents. My sisters in law, however, were not so blessed and have the scars to show for it. So enter my daughters who carry both traits and they don’t know what they’re going to get. Well, for one daughter, I think she already knows. So when the opportunity to test Oxy Clinical, I immediately thought of her and she was more than glad to test it out. She’s been using another treatment product but she was game to try this one out. So she immediately set aside the one she’s been using and started using the Oxy Clinical.

The OXY® Clinical Clearing Treatment claims to kill acne causing bacteria as well as some prescription acne medications and it claims to be able to eliminate these bacterias in just 8 hours. The treatment system is designed to keep the medication on your skin to fight acne longer and the hydrating therapy included will keep your skin moist while keeping oil down.
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My husband has his own business and so do several of our friends. One of the most important things that they are all concerned with are their point of sale equipment. Whether they are using an old fashioned cash register or an automated credit card processing machine, the most important thing is that it works

The Epson tm-t88iv is a thermal printer that is designed to handle a high-volume retail environment and it also has speed. That means that you don’t have a long wait time to get a receipt out when ringing up a sale. The printer works with most point of sale systems so you won’t have to worry about any compatibility issues.

We are in the midst of selecting a college for our daughter who is graduating from high school this year and I can tell you, it’s not going to be an easy task. Many universities have made drastic cut backs making some of the courses and majors that she’s interested in unavailable. At the same time, many of them are raising their tuition fees and other fees. It is a hard balancing act and a hard decision to make.

One alternative to the traditional university systems is a school like Western Governor’s University (WGU) where students can get an online degree without having to attend a traditional campus and they claim that their tuition fees are lower and more affordable. Their courses are supposedly more accelerated so you can finish sooner thus saving more money. WGU also offers a masters degree online which allows working adults to earn a higher degree without sacrificing their income.

One of the things that has been of interest to us with our daughter is the amount of scholarships and financial aids offered by universities so it is one of the things that I checked on with WGU. It turns out that they offer several ways to assist their students via:

• Additional Economic Turnaround Scholarships
• $3,000 Scholarships for Employees of Small Businesses
• AARP Foundation-WGU Educational Assistance Program Scholarships

If you are looking for a place that offers online degrees, check out WGU.

Who are the idiots that banned these books? I don’t even want to know. On the Huffington Post, here is a list of the 11 Most Surprising Banned Books. These are some of the most loved and popular books ever, and they are classics! Here are the titles:

The Dictionary
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Beloved & The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
James and the Giant Peach & The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Farewell to Arms & For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Click on the link if you want to see the reason why they were banned. You will be screaming “idiots!” too. Where have these people been? Even those who’ve been under rocks surely, must have read and enjoyed some of these books. People who ban books should be checked with pulse oximeter to see if they are still alive. Seriously!

Title: Deep Kiss of Winter
Authors: Kresley Cole and Gena Showalter

Publish Date: October 2009
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
ISBN-10: 1439159661
ISBN-13: 9781439159668

THE STORIES:
UNTOUCHABLE By Kresley Cole
A breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time…and a Valkyrie aching to be touched.

Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela the Ice Maiden — the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey, and her freezing skin can’t be touched by anyone but her own kind without inflicting pain beyond measure. Soon desperate for closeness, in an agony of frustration, Murdoch and Danii will do anything to have each other. Together, can they find the key that will finally allow them to slake the overwhelming desire burning between them?

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