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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 28 MAY 2024: Just a little about me. I've been married for 32 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. This is me. I am a Gemini. Pure, Raw, passionate. The NEW focus of this blog is to share my adventures, travels, random thoughts, book reviews, thoughts, opinions, and writing adventures from actual writing, writing/editing tips, marketing, research. I'll get there. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2024: I participated in the
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Congratulations on completing the 13 Poetic Days of Halloween.](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Halloween-2026567.gif) Big Thanks to Lyn's a Witchy Woman  for hosting the contest!Find me at: WEBSITE: http://www.stephanieburkhart.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/StephanieBurkhartAuthor GOOD READS: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4031660.Stephanie_Burkhart YOU TUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/user/botrina?feature=mhee Previous GRATITIOUS Warning, that I decided to keep in case I post about something that might offend.  WARNING I intend to be open, honest, and forthright. No topic is off limits from religion to you name it, I'm going there. If you think you might be offended...back up now - this blog isn't for you. For those who "dare"  check out the "Gemini Rising..." 
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Blog Week Post #6 Secrets
Today’s Prompt for 6 SEP is: Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tournier Can you share a secret? Small or big, tell us. No? Tell us why not. Word Count: 408 Well, that’s an interesting quote. I suppose our secrets play with our heads. You can either keep a secret to yourself or you can tell it – and then it’s not a secret anymore, I suppose it’s a rumor. Haha. Secrets lean toward being bad, don’t they? What’s the BIG you always see ? Maury says it best: “You are NOT the father.” I suppose it’s much harder to keep secret who your mother was, but George RR Martin did a really good job keeping Jon Snow’s mother a secret for quite awhile. There’s always the good secret – Maybe a baby reveal? A promotion? A job? They’re not secrets for long. Do I have a secret? Not really. I’m pretty much an open book. If I have a secret, I can’t keep it a secret for long because I’m a Gemini and I like to blab. We do have the gift of communication you see. I suppose a little secret is that I have a pain in my hip. Nothing I can’t handle pain wise. I’m 56 and post-menopausal which basically means I have no estrogen. Great, no periods – right? Well, estrogen helps lube the joints and my joints have no estrogen which means it’s a lot easier for inflammation to creep in. Inflammation fuels the aches and pains and thus I have an ache in my hip. I did some physical therapy on it which helped, but I could go for more, but I don’t have much left on my FLEX account so the PT ran out. Now, I’ve found a progesterone/estrogen crème that I run on it which helps. I’ve been using Field of Greens which I think helps. At least my gut likes me. I use a detox spray – again, I think my gut loves it. I’ve been using bromelain and quercetin as natural anti-inflammatories but when it’s annoying, I’ll take an advil. Oh, I just started taking olive oil. You can take OO by the tablespoon or use pills. They have pills you can buy on amazon, but I’ve been taking EVOO cold pressed via tablespoon. I take 2-4 tablespoons a day. I’ve noticed a difference since taking the EVOO. I’ll write a blog on the benefits of EVOO. I’m just managing it now. I’d like to lose some weight and help it out, but when your 56 and your metabolism doesn’t want to cooperate, you’ve got to be patient. Secrets? I’ll pass. Smiles Steph |
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