A Few Things

A FEW THINGS-- Before I get started I would like to thank my wonderful friends who are guiding me along this journey--I love good constructive conversations as they guide me to find my niche so to speak. I have enjoyed being around people who encourage. I grew up in Deadwood, SD. 906 Main St to be exact (Upper Main St). My father created "The Original Deadwood Tour" in 1979. I grew up hearing stories of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Gold, Guns, Girls and Glory. At the time I was to young to understand about brothels-- but my father had a shirt (actually he STILL has this shirt) that says "I was there when Pam's Purple Door closed down." (1980?) Winter time was not exciting for me growing up in Deadwood--but when summer rolled around--it was time to work. Deadwood was a tourist town--I spent the summers--either selling tickets for my dad tour bus, making sub sandwiches at Big E's Sub Shop, selling Black Hills Gold jewelry at the Gold Nugget, or serv...

A FEW THINGS--- I have decided to publish on Mondays instead of Wednesdays from here on out. It will fit my schedule better and Mondays are such downers-- hopefully you will read this and feel better about your week. This is my 13th blog since starting a public blog. My numbers were highest when I was "spilling the tea"about my dysfunctional life vs trying to talk about life changes or inspiration or travel. I understand this--I love the drama of "The Real Housewives" I tune in every week to see the shade, the gossip, and ALL the drama. I also had a session with my blogging mentor and he said I should have waited and released all of these blogs at the same time vs weekly as it helps with promotion. Of course I find this out AFTER I released them--in my mind I just wanted to continue on with what I was doing on Facebook not knowing there was a strategy to making a successful public blog. Life is all about the learning--and starting this journey has definitely bee...

A FEW THINGS. When I began this blog I did not realize what a challenge it would be. When I was on Facebook it was shared among friends--now that it is a public blog I am always challenged to watch what I say. I can't just talk about a person or persons on a public domain. Legally and Ethically it isn't in my best interest. So I have struggled on how I want to come across when writing my blog. I have had messages come to me that I have given the "Disney" version of what has truly happened in my life and they were not happy about it and they are absolutely right. I feel limited in a public blog verses my private Facebook page. I have avoided writing this blog because I was not sure what I wanted this blog to be. A travel blog, an inspirational blog, a venting blog, maybe a gossip blog. What is my direction here? Do I even want to continue? I realized maybe I was going down the negative tunnel when my Facebook post the other night was this: Needed a breather so I we...