Hi! Meet  my friends and guardians, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and a green, stuffed, frog.

When I decided to become a writer,  my husband  bought me a computer, a monitor, a printer, and all the items I needed.

I  bought the Blessed Virgin Mary statue at a garage sale for ten cents. She sits by my computer, below my monitor. I’m not sure when I got the frog. I suppose this happened during  the Beanie Baby collecting craze. Although my frog is not a Beanie Baby, I put it on top of every computer that I had ever had. I enjoy seeing the frog and the Blessed Virgin  every day, plus I think they serve a purpose. The frog sits on top of the computer, and the Virgin sits on the desk by the monitor and computer. Both are ever so watchful of everything I do.  They make sure I am working, especially when I don’t feel like writing or doing much because I feel bad. (I have fibromyalgia.) In addition,  my husband periodically checks to see if I’m okay while I’m working .

I write regardless of how badly I feel. I write every day even if it’s a few hundred words but I write. Somewhere, I think  I read that Stephen King writes every day except on his birthday.  Let me know if this is true. I also edit my short stories, read, and always try to do  something related to writing everyday unless I feel really bad.