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Tuesdays With The Angels-The Bully Never Wins

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As a young girl I witnessed bullying in our neighborhood. The little girl was cruel  to my friend and me. My own mother didn’t seem to notice but my friend Sally’s mother did. She sat us down and talked to us about it. Her words gave me confidence. I’ll never forget her kindness. Perhaps she is the inspiration for so much of my mothering skills. 

Unfortunately, in our lives today bullies come and bullies go. The bully is in the schoolyard, the neighborhood, and the politics played out like a TV show in the news headlines.

What can we do about it? Like Sally’s mother, we can gravitate to those who inspire us with their kindness and support. Besides these people with angelic qualities, I always visualize Heaven’s angels near. I think they send messages of hope, and positive thoughts and ideas.

Gratefully,  I’ve met many a kind person in my life especially one I am sure was an angel sent from above to comfort me long ago.When I lost my child and sorrow took me down, a kind friend took me on a girl’s trip. There we met a man who had to be an angel. He is the inspiration for all my angel books. In my books, of course, there are kind characters, themes of hope, redemption, forgiveness and love. But also, there are oh so many angels to help make sure the bully never wins.

Tuesday With The Angel’s-Angel’s Prayer For Bullying’s End 2023

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If I could hear all the angel’s prayers, they would pray for our children to never suffer from the effects of bullying again. If I could hear the angel’s prayers, their hopes would be to inspire us in 2023, to  teach all our children to stand tall, building strength and show kindness to others.

As I write my Mystic Bay Series about angels, I know for sure that angel’s prayers flow through my mind. In my novels, the bully never wins and love prevails. How you ask, do I know this? Well, once upon a time, long ago, when I was in tremendous sorrow, an angel appeared in human form and my life was never the same.  Angel’s prayers fill my heart with dreams and writings of love.

Tuesday With The Angels- My Favorite Christmas Movie and Bullying

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At Christmas time, the 1946 movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, is my very favorite to watch. George Bailey, feels his business and life is ruined and wishes he was never born. He meets Clarence, his guardian angel, who stops him from jumping off the town’s bridge into a river. Clarence shows George, what life would be like in the town if George had never been born and his good deeds never happened. It’s a heartfelt story of George’s courage, kindness and love of family and neighbors. The story is an example of what standing up against a bully can do. Long ago, I was fortunate to meet an angel in human form. This comforting angel is the inspiration for all the books in my Mystic Bay Series. In the stories I write, the bully never wins. Other George Bailey’s are out there now, thwarting bullies today! They are our heroes. It IS a wonderful life! Happy Holidays!  

Tuesdays With The Angels-The Bully Never Wins

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Bullying is a theme in all my novels. In Town of Angel Christmas, the bully tries to prevent the sale of land proposed for housing future rescued wild horses. In the story, Angel Ken, who is secretly living a human existence, helps solve the issue by weaving his courage, wit and kindness, ultimately thwarting the bully’s efforts.  In all my novels, the bully is taught a lesson in human kindness.

It’s the same in our lives today. Whether, the bully ever learns his or her way to kindness depends on their own willingness to let goodness in. They can be influenced by the way other’s react to them.

If we stand firm with kindness in our hearts, we will have the strongest shield of all. It’s a shield built of love, and angel lessons. Love is indeed a strength to be reckoned with. When I write, love and angels always win.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Bullying Hurts Children and They Are Listening

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Bullying is hurting our children and we can all do something about it. We realize our children are watching and listening to bullies on TV, in schools and neighborhoods. Recently, I spoke at Desert Foothills Library in Arizona about my writing the Mystic Bay Series and my memoir Special Needs Children The Angels On My Shoulder. All my books include thwarting bullying as a theme.

A wonderful family came late to hear my talk. As I sat with them after the others had left telling them about the books, the mother stated, “The Archangel Michael sent our family to hear you speak about angels.” She told me she wants to write about angels and I encouraged her to keep her dream of writing alive. Then my daughter called. Our grandson is learning a most valuable lesson in his kindergarten. The teacher’s lesson is Fill your bucket with kindness? Isn’t that a wonderful message for young ones to learn? Kindness is healing. We can reach our children by being true examples of kindness ourselves. Bullying never wins. Let’s ask the angels to help us. I’m sure they’ll listen.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Summer of Angels

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November 1st from 4 to 5 pm  I will be speaking at Desert Foothills Library in Cave Creek, Arizona. My topic will be my writing journey I call, The Angels on the Writer’s Shoulder. I will emphasize the journey of synchronicity I’ve been on since my late daughter passed away twenty seven years ago. My talk will include how it all transpired and I’ll read a few paragraphs from my memoir, Special Needs Children The Angels On My Shoulder. It’s a passage about Ned, of one of my students, and his interchange with me that changed my life for the better. All my students transformed my life on this incredible journey of mine. Five books in the Mystic Bay Series tell the secret story of  angels living as humans where no one knows the secret. Besides my memoir and Mystic Bay Series, I will speak briefly about my children’s book, When The Angels Sent Butterflies. I just completed my sixth in the Mystic Bay Series, Summer of Angels which will be published early 2023.

I’d love for my books to reach more readers because the thought of angels and writing about them inspires me each day to keep on the path of positivity and love. I walk the path with the angels, it’s my calling. 

Tuesdays With The Angels-Children and Bullying

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I posted my latest YouTube titled, Bullying Hurts Children. A song from a musical always enters my mind when I think of the hurt bullying causes children. ‘Careful what you say, children will listen. Careful what you say, children will see.’ Our children are our precious ones, we are their voices. We need to protect children by being role models. My late daughter, Kate, was bullied by a girl in our neighborhood years ago. I immediately called the little girl’s mother. I’m sure I was unpopular with the mother from then on but my goal was to protect my child. Children need our examples of kindness and empathy not the bullying we see on social media, TV and in schools and our neighborhoods. Of course, the bully never wins because they themselves are hurt too.

In my third in the Mystic Bay Series called, Town of Angels, Klaus Waxman, a bully, comes to town to reap havoc and mock the angels sightings in town. Children with special needs have seen angels and the whole town is jubilant and hopeful that angels are near. But bully, Klaus, is taught lessons in humanity by the indomitable Madam Norma, the oldest and wisest psychic in town. Klaus changes for the better with kind words and counseling. All bullies could change if helped like this along the way.

This is my prayer for the children of the world, that we, the grown-ups of the world, would see our way to help stop abusive bullying. Prayers are hopes and dreams, and if we all work together, what a wonderful world it would be for our children.

Tuesdays With The Angels-All Dogs Go To Heaven

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Will Rogers stated long ago, “If There Are No Dogs In Heaven. Then When I Die, I Want To Go Where They Went.“

Many people who have had near death experiences, have written they have seen dogs and cats as they go through the tunnel toward the light. Recently, a friend of ours was on his death bed. His wife told me before he died, he saw his old friends and his mother who had passed away standing in the room. His beloved late dog was there too and ran to him. These stories of people seeing their loved ones convinced me. All our beloved pets go to heaven.

Dogs have special roles in all of my books. I have given some of them the names of my late dogs  and the dog and cat characters are woven into the storylines.

We put our precious rescue dog, Tuffy, to sleep because she was so ill at seventeen. The next day as we got into our car with our other three dogs, I sincerely felt her presence along with our two other late dogs. It was just a moment, but so clear to me that Tuffy’s spirit was near.

Our vet told me dogs don’t fear death. They don’t wonder if Mom is going to take them to the park tomorrow. All they think of is now. I’ve had many dogs over the years and every one of them is special. Tuffy was a wonderful dog and I will miss her greatly. Yet I know in my heart she’ll be waiting with our other late dogs at the end of the rainbow bridge.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Angel Messages

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Hope some say is a word that doesn’t mean very much. For months now I have messages of inspirational thoughts that come through my mind. These angel messages are so clear. Hope is a prayer. This is a message I received recently. To me hope is a never ending prayer. Like wishing on a star or dreaming for your own life or those you love, prayers come in the form of hoping and wishing and dreaming. I hope for my family all good things with love and kindness. I hope for the best for friends and for those I don’t know in our fragile, beautiful world.

I hadn’t thought about the word Hope until it was said not to mean much on a TV series. To me, irrefutably, hope is one of the most beautiful words in our language. It is an intragal part of the loveliest of words, Prayer. I thank God and the angels for all the books I write about angels, from my memoir, my children’s book and the five in the Mystic Bay Series. In the fictional town Mystic Bay that I’ve created, angels live as humans. This is where art has imitated life, for as sure as I am that there is a heaven above, I know I met an angel once over twenty years ago after my daughter, Kate, passed away. He changed my life for good and I am forever grateful.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Angel Messages

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A message from the angels ran through my thoughts the other day. I wasn’t thinking about angels at the time.

Love Is Tangible was the message. And as I thought about it during the day, it made such sense. Yes, you can see love in another’s eyes, in the devotion you feel for your loved ones on earth and loved ones gone on to heaven.  You can almost touch that love when you touch your heart.

My late daughter Kate, was afraid of bees when she was four. Years later after she passed away, I met a man who I am sure now was an angel. His presence and words comforted me. A few years later, I began writing novels about angels who come to earth in human form to help.

In ‘Town of Angels,’ the third novel in the Mystic Bay Series, Angel Ken sends butterflies to people in the town to calm their fears.  I was encouraged to  write a children’s book about the angel sending butterflies. Thankful for the wonderful illustrations by my friend, Susan Claire Anderson, I wrote ‘When The Angel Sent Butterflies’. In the story, Angel Ken sends butterflies to calm little Kate’s fear of bees. On the back cover I wrote, “Children need to know love from their parents and others surrounds them. Love conquers fear and beieving that angels are near can help sweep any childhood fear away.”   My love for my daughter, Kate, grows on as the years do now. Love never dies and as the angels’ message relayed to me, Love Is Tangible.