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I spent the whole month of January getting cataracts removed from both eyes and followed up with check ups afterwards. My vision is so much better and brighter, and I no longer am wearing glasses. I go for a one month checkup next Wednesday. Hopefully all will be well with the healing. |
| I've added an entry to my BLOG. |
| You might get more readers if you post a link. To post a link to a specific entry, you need the entry number for that entry. I believe it's in the upper right corner of that page. It's definitely not at the top between the title and description. That's the item number. You use that to link to the whole blog. Let me know if you need info on how to do that. Copy the entry number, then create a link using {entry:#######}. Using an example from my blog, it's like this... {entry:1038860} = "And so I was Almost Dead Without Even Knowing it..."  Like all code on WdC, you use the curly braces located above the square brackets on your keyboard. I hope this helps! |
| I would like to apologize for being late with replies to my notes and emails as of late here. I even let my membership end by not renewing in time! That was a first in 16 years here. My reasons being that I have lost TWO of my sons within a year of their passing. I was quite devastated as you can imagine. I am slowly able to resume some normalcy in my daily life. However, I am sure I am not the same person that I was. I will survive. Shi |
| I have a question - Is anyone familiar with Access Media Group? I received an email from them stating that my book Living In The Concrete Corridor - Book 2 of Concrete Reflections had gotten their attention and they would like my contact information and that they had great news... that being that they would like to partner with me as my dedicated Publicist and Book Agent and consider me to a Radio Interview at THIS WEEK IN AMERICA with RIC BRATTON. Can anyone tell me what all this involves? |
| https://www.yelp.com/biz/access-media-group-colorado-springs Scroll down the review of "Joel Y" for a great big hint. In the late days of print-only, there was a publishing house called Vantage Press. Their market claim was that they would get you into print, period. No editor turning his thumb down on your project, no marketing department head wanting to re-shape your brainchild into something "saleable". Just one catch. They would print as many copies as you could afford (can you say "HELOC"?) , for you to sell by hook or by crook. They were the foremost of the "vanity" publishers. It would be less than completely fair of me to fail to mention their legitimate purposes. It was not uncommon that a church congregation would go to Vantage Press to print and bind copies of their pastor's sermons, or the yearbook of church activities. Access Media seems to be in this business also, in its twenty-first century iteration. It;s a legitimate business, but it may not be the partner you have in mind. |
| Wow! I got a wonderful surprise in my email - an award for cheering on poets in Parade of Poets for the month of April! Thank you so very much to those who made it happen.  |
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Know that your love for them gave them wonderful lives they wouldn't have had without you! 
That's where my folks lived. I'll be in Portland on Sunday and was thinking of heading up to Seattle to see my brother. I'll certainly wave as I go by. 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STORYMASTER 
