Welcome, Dear Readers

 “Thanks to all kind souls for reading my journey through lands both familiar and foreign to us all. May your day be as pleasant as you have just made mine.”

Smiles,

Having written four novels to date, none I consider worth more than fire starter for warmth on what can often be a cold, solo journey where learning grounds are a necessary and ongoing component of earning “professional” writing badges.” Works in progress: short story collection, ongoing submissions of fiction, articles and essays to magazines and contests. “It would be so much easier to just sell cookies, haha.”

   
(c) March 2011  ”There is no player so bold as the one who chooses not to engage in the game.” ~ Aurora Morealist
 

 

118 thoughts on “Welcome, Dear Readers

  1. Hello! First, I LOVE your name! It’s beautiful! My nieces name is Alora…similar! I found you through the Crazy Chicks Club. So glad to meet you, and I truly admire your writing. Can’t wait to read more! ~ Pam

    • Hi, Pam!

      Thank you for the read. Isn’t the Crazy Chicks Club the greatest for making cool connections? So glad you found me! I think I did read something of yours a while back but I’m impressed with your tech skills for sure, wouldn’t have the logo up without you. Going to see what you’ve been up to lately :)

    • Thank you, Louise! So glad you enjoyed, do my best to ensure something new goes up often. Now I can’t guarantee you will enjoy it all, lol, but I do appreciate your visits and am looking forward to reading your pages :)

  2. Thanks for “liking” my post re “what prompts me to create…to write,” especially coming from a published writer like you. I’ll definitely peruse your posts. :)

    • Trust me, being published does NOT mean I am a good writer. The arts are so political and then there’s the new wave of “spin journalism” which I detest. I admire genuine people who are true to their art, period. That’s why I liked your piece on what prompts you to create. It was genuine and I totally relate. Thank YOU for swinging by and sharing your thoughts :)

  3. Aurora: I am humbled to know that you have added my site to the Blogroll of this AMAZING site. Super excited that a ROCK STAR like you, Who’s work is on another level which i hope to get too in a couple of years actually has seen my site let alone added me to her site. THANK YOU i will try to earn the mention.

    • My pleasure, Pete. Nothing to earn. You are there because you deserve to be. Your unique way of seeing and sharing your world views deserves to be heard and if I can help you reach even one young person who needs to hear it, I’m more than happy. Just keep doing what you do and being who you are. Never mind rock, you’re already a star!

  4. So glad that you visited my blog and gave me an opportunity to find yours. I love what I’ve seen and read thus far. Nice to see another Canadian writer blogging passionately about the world around us and our place in it. I’ll be back again to read more.

    • Thank you, Sylvia! I’ve been visiting you for a while and I really enjoy my visits. Thank you for posting the First50Words prompt site. It is a great “primer” when stumped and just gold old-fashioned fun any time. Will be visiting you again soon as I have subscribed to your pages. Looking forward to reading more :)

  5. Aurora, I owe you an apology. I didn’t realise my memory was quite as bad as it is. I stupidly invited you to visit my main web site when in fact you had visited it only recently and left me a most generous comment.

    M

    • No apology needed here, I am constantly getting turned around in my own blog travels as I find so many marvelous things to read and think about or laugh about. I am well and truly a self confessed blogoholic. Now I need to form a 12 step group just for that… sheesh… well at least it’s a way of ensuring I write because I often start reading and don’t produce much at all… Glad you enjoyed the comment, love your pages :)

      • Janice, I believe I have a spare copy of the collection of my poetry that was published in the summer of 2010. May I send it to you, with my compliments? If so please get in touch (my email address is on the ‘Contact’ page of my web site).

        M

      • Wow. I would be most honoured to receive such a beautiful gift. Will visit your pages for details and thank you so kindly for sharing your beatuiful work with me.

  6. Greetings, noticed you stopped by my blog, so I just felt compelled to reciprocate … almost forgot to eat supper wandering around your posts! Bookmarked and will be back :)

    • Thanks! I’m following you now and hope your supper didn’t grow cold, LOL I’ll be back to read more of your pages, too, relate to some of your recent writings all too well, lol.

  7. You seem to be enjoying your time here in
    WordPress, I will have to call by again and
    take a journey through your world of blogs,
    in the meantime just step into…

    My Gothic Realm

    And do enjoy your stay amongst the
    Vampires, Ghouls, Skeletons and the
    odd Zombie or ten :)

    Have a most pleasant weekend now :)

    Androgoth

    • I have not visited this site yet so if you get there before me and have any good news to share, please share with all of us which is all I’m doing here until I find out for myself if it is of any value to any of us in any way. JAM

    • Well glad to have you swing by for a read but I have to warn you, what you learn about women might not meet typical expectations especially with all my independent thinking Crazy Chick Club friends sharing on here, LOL Don’t worry though, it’s always a fun ride through the terrain of our collective mind and you are not likely to become bored any time soon if we have anything to say about it, LOL If you hang out with us long enough, perhaps you may help us to understand more about men? LOL

  8. Sounds like a nice reprieve from the crap I am working on:) Men are pretty simple to understand and I am sure I will reveal that in my posts amongst you wild women.

  9. Thanks for your visit, I will be back to your pages soon as well and if you don’t see me, give me a poke, I get so lost reading some days, I can’t get it all done. Glad you enjoy what you’ve seen so far :)

    • Ben, I arrived on your poetry by grace of a path through another’s pages… I cannot now recall whose pages. But I will never forget yours; you just made me teary, the blog (e-log) award pales against your praise of me. Still, I will share and pay the kindness forward. As soon as I possibly can. Thank you, Ben.

    • Oh My. I hope I don’t seem an ungrateful wretch in the face of your kindness. The truth is, I am actually feeling a little overwhelmed by all the blog honours bestowed upon me of late. I thank you kindly for the recognition. Wishing you a most Happy New Year and I will visit your post asap. :) :) :)

  10. Wow, you have heaps of cred. Absolutely fantastic, Janice.

    I clicked on ‘Past & Present Lives’ thinking you’d be talking reincarnation, but this blew me away. You’re very active in the field of writing (I never have been). Congrats. And while I’m here.. Happy New Year!

    • Appreciate your support, Noeleen, thanks for visiting me again!

      You are very active in the field of writing now, woman, just never stop. See your pages, soon.

      Happy 2012 to you as well and every other joy possible ever more :)

  11. Okay….so you redesign your e-log and I finally find this page. I’m such a slack ass. And….a name….Janice is it? This page and all you’ve accomplished and want to accomplish is most impressive. Can I live in your guesthouse when you become famous?

    • LOL LMBO at you, woman, you are funny. Should I become famous enough to afford a guesthouse, your name is on the door, how’s that? Thanks for all your kind support and encouragment, it means a great deal to me and I’m glad you enjoy my pages. Although I must confess, I think I enjoy yours more… so funnnnyyyyyy. See you soon, Crazy Chickie :)

  12. Hi Janice!

    (Love your handle.) I want to thank you for subscribing to my blog last November, and apologize for being so late with this note. Being “Freshly Pressed” Thanksgiving week threw me for something of a loop; I’m still playing catch up.

    I look forward to poking around on your blog!

    Happy New Year,
    Marci

    • No worries, Marci, life gets in the way for me all the time, virtual world on hold for a couple of weeks now. Suffering withdrawals, lol. Glad you could swing by. Enjoy your visit :) Happy 2012 to you as well!

    • Thanks kindly for all your visits and inspirational messages on your blog and here! Miracles abound everywhere…. if only we notice them :) Your nomination is also appreciated but I feel since I have already received it that I should accept the nomination in the lovely spirit intended but not the award. I hope you will understand my position and know the gratitude with which I write my sincere “Thank you,” Aurora & Brian both for being such positive forces in the world. See your pages again soon :)
      3 Hearts,
      Janice

    • Oh, thank you kindly for your compliments. Right in the midst of cleaning up and re-arranging things but the content will remain the same. Glad you enjoyed and I look forward to reading your pages as well :)

  13. HI Aurora. I like your blog and found your post about blaming others for our problems quite compelling. It is a nasty habit of people to ignore personal responsibility and a pet peeve of mine.

    Since women’s issues are a passion of yours I would like to share with you a book I created. It is a non-fiction resource book set to empower young women. I also worked in domestic violence and that was the push I needed to write this book. May I send you the link to where you can read the book online?

    • Yes, please, absolutely share the link and thank you so kindly for finding my pages! Looking forward to reading yours and your book but please forgive me if I am slow, my reading list, blog rounds, writing and other personal work is taking up a good deal of my time. But I will favorite the link and get there as often as possible. My readers tend to be socially conscious and I am fortunate to be among a wonderful community of women and men writers here who would, perhaps, enjoy reading your online work as well if you’d like to post the link here. Glad you found me and I look forward to seeing more of you :)

      • Can’t wait! Going there right now and will bookmark it so I’ll be sure to finish, thank you kindly :) Now anyone who reads this may also go there so hope that helps, if only a little. Thanks again :)

      • I read everything on the link you sent and it’s all positive, practical information which you’ve targeted appropriately so I personally think if you can connect with schools, youth groups etc, it will succeed. We need more positive girl power, always. Thank you for the link :)

      • Thanks. I agree. When I see “girl power” I always think Spice GIrls or Veruca Salt. The 90′s certainly had a good effect on me. LOL! I totally agree with you that we need more positive girl power messages

  14. Good evening,
    i like your blog. Your post are very interisting.
    I invite you to visit my intercultural blog: http://parolesemplici.wordpress.com/mytinbox/
    I define this blog “In parole Semplici” as a “virtuacultural tin box” where they are guarded thoughts, memories, images, sounds, and simple stories.

    My dream is to create a intercultural blog with authors from around the world.
    Do you want to collaborate for “In parole Semplici”?
    I’ll wait your reply:
    inparolesemplici@gmail.com

  15. Hi Janis! As one of my newest blog followers, I’ve tagged you in a blog tagging game! If you would like to participate, please visit my blog for more information. It would be wonderful for my readers to learn more about you! ~ Julie :)

  16. I hate to see you in pain and you are such an amazing writer. I would like to suggest you take the incident with the “nurse” and make it into a novel. The other two characters can experience what ever you as the author see fit. I think it would make a great novel and would help your healing. Just a random thought. Love and hugs, Yotaki

    • Thanks, Dolly, you are loved, too! I remember writing the Christmas dolly story of racism overcome by a child’s heart for you. You have just overcome mine :)

    • Thank you! I’d be glad to read, love reading, just wish I had more time to read everything I am missing out on here. That said, I’ll go now to your story before I get distracted :)

      • ah, well you can get a kindle reader for your laptop/smartphone? Other than that, I can’t send a copy as the rights are with amazon (lame I know). Don’t worry though.

      • lol I know this will sound all the more lame but I don’t have a smartphone and laptop out of commission right now… I am really interested though and will try to find a way, maybe a friend has kindle and I can read it there :) Or maybe the library has a means, they must have. Thanks for the reply, remind me anytime if anything changes and I can get it online somewhere :) Best of luck with your story publication :D

      • Oh no! Well I am glad you are interested. By the way I mean laptop/computer – you can get kindle reader free for window – there is a link on my most recent blog post on it.

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