Welcome to My Monday, Funday...Blog about Someday...

Hope you like Howie Day's "You and I Collide"....someone shared it with me, I liked it and shall share it with all of you today.  I've got new things on my blog - you can stay and visit with a little "wic wac woe", which is actually tic-tac-toe...or pinball...or listen to some music while you read if you can effectively "twofer"...

It's Monday, November 15th and my boys are out hunting...opening day deer season is a long held tradition in my family and I hope they enjoy the outdoors.

Take a minute and review an excerpt from an upcoming article I am writing for Working Mother Magazine.  It is an interview I was able to obtain with a new author (new to me), Walter Rhein.  His new book, The Bone Sword, was available November 1, 2010 and is a sci-fi/fantasy...if that's your genre for book reading (think Harry Potter), this is a really good read.

I was really impressed with Walter..and I'm embarrassed to say, he's the closest thing I've come to meeting a "real celebrity" (unless you count Channel 3 Clubhouse), let along have a chance to interview him...I was nervous, afraid of looking stupid, and not at all sure what I was doing interviewing him in the first place.  I found out, he's just an average guy, married, new baby, writer, taking college classes so he can get "a real job" teaching English in school and raise his family.  He is such a down to earth kind of guy, willing to share details of his life, his 10-years he spent traveling in Lima, Peru (where he met his wife) and how wonderful it has been to become a new father (his new daughter Sofia is beautiful).  This proud daddy literally exudes with love for his new daughter and he has truly enjoyed his time parenting her while his wife works part-time.
They currently live in Wisconsin and, his wife Zulma, has had a little difficulty adjusting to the Wisconsin winters which are much like Michigan (since it nevers hows in Peru, this last year was her first white Christmas)!

Anyway, if you'd like an inside look at this up and coming author, I will be posting a full interview and where you can find access to his books.  He also has a great website about Lima, Peru and if you are ever interested in travel, this looks like a beautiful part of the world to visit.  It's interesting to not that in Peru, the culture is significantly different than in the states.  Children actually live with their parents until they marry...this culture thrives on raising their young until they are ready to start their own family.  They reach responsibility and children are expected to contribute financially to the family unit as well as for themselves...what a unique concept!  I personally think 18-years of age (while it may define an adult) is still an age where there is a whole lot of growing up to do..not to mention the economics of paying for college and the benefits of living at home while this is accomplished.

In the past two weeks, I've managed to step out of my comfort zone and start blogging about things that people really want to read and I hope I'm slowly getting there.  I have found it is very difficult to find my "true voice"...something that I have practiced keeping quiet for so long, I'm having trouble hearing it.  Strangely, at the encouragement of my two teenagers, to just "say it as it is" is what seems to work the best. There is a lot of room for improvement..appreciate your comments and assistance.

My website is under construction, but soon to be available and I am excited to have one central place to categorize blogging for technical issues relating to resistance welding cables, book reviews, an ongoing babble about the vertically challenged (notes from the tall girl side..my own frustrations with being a little too tall) and hopefully a few issues that empower us to be a little better or just consider it.

Have a great Monday, wishing all the deer hunters good luck..."if it's brown, it's down"...as my son says!