The first day

After agonizing for weeks whether or not I am was going to do this. I have decided to do SOMETHING even if it is wrong.
I guess the best way to start is to give some clue as to who and what I am.

As the profile states I am a 57 year old female. Married to "the bear" for 36 1/2 years, a retired law enforcement officer who now works with emergency services software. We have two adult sons. one who lives close by and another who lives 1500 miles away. Both are not married but in what I would call permanent relationships.
I am basically retired from the active workforce myself and this is mostly because I deal with a chronic condition that is a first cousin to Fibromyalgia. and I usually use that term because it is one that most people understand. I have worked with Reiki, "running energy" and other forms of non traditional belief and alternative health practices since 1989. And those have kept me going. BUT after some serious thinking have added the title of "a multimedia artist. " BY multi media I mean that I never know what I am going to be working with next. Locally, I am somewhat known for my beading, gardening, and the Holiday village consisting of 65 handpainted houses with more added each year. In the last two years I have expanded my horizons by taking a memoir writing class and have ended up facilitating memoir/journal writing group. I committed myself fully to twelve weeks of the ARTIST'S WAY with five other wonderful women. We are still together as a group and now working on a follow up book FINDING WATER. I awaken every morning eager to write my pages even though they are often labeled "the great whine".
SO the hardest part is over. I have begun with this small introduction of who I am. Where it will go from here I have no idea but am eager to find out what this new adventure holds for me.