Tag: literature

Cancer/ Things I did right!


        The problem with having Cancer is simple and true to form for all who have it, your body has turned against you and created the cells that can kill you. Yo kill it and fight it takes more from you too, for the operations, chemicals and radiation will sapp more energy from the person who has it weakening them, as they fight to stay alive. Then if you survive it you must come back from it to survive many more years or even a short period of time! Crazy right, well, I fight this battle now, my grandfather died of it, my father died of it, my step-father died of it, My Mother died of it, and my second wife has survived it. Now it is really my turn, and all I can do at times is keep a straight face even when I feel like breaking down and crying. Checking your own morality and mortality, is scary for all of us and I know that, more than most. But it is all one day at a time now, as I count down to the operation 29 days away. 

Yesterday’s blog I spoke of Regrets and what I thought I did wrong and missed, due to either things in my control or controlled by someone else.  Today I want to talk about some things I did right, I overcame Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorder on my own as a child basically. I helped raise my siblings in anyway I could, I helped friends with problems and to overcome their fears and more. I went on to leave High School as a Junior and to get a GED anyway. I joined the Army failed, and refused to surrender and joined the Army National Guard and then the US Navy for 12 more years.  I loved and respected my first wife and had two of everything with her, including two beautiful daughters I love dearly, no matter where they be today.  I went on to graduate college with an Associate’s Degree in Hotel Management with a 3.7 grade point average at 40 years old. So I did accomplish some pluses for the world and myself. I write little stories and poems and share them with the world thru Kindle e-books on Amazon and Kobo Publishing and WattPad .com. My writings are not Hemingways’ nor are they Shakespeare’s or even  Robert Ludlum‘s, but they are my stories I tried to share with all. I overcame False Accusations, and survived childhood beatings and mental abuse. I live with PTSD, Sleep Apnea, Six Herniated Discs in my spine, and now cancer of the lungs.  As my surgery date gets nearer I just hope I have done enough to be remembered as decent person who cared.  God Bless folks, and I shall keep blogging as I go along, if I can.

 

Diagnosis, action next and my Stories live! Thanks


       Each And Every Day brings me closer to seeing what has infected or grown within one of my lungs. Facing the same disease that has affected so many in my life over its span is scary, hard and not knowing what will come next is even worse. Never knowing whether you will cough up something, loose breath, or just drop from weakness is crazy. Yet so far I am holding my own since they found what ever it may be in one lung, and told me it is isolated to that lung. That is about the only good point so far in this discovery and the news of the illness!

Cancer has taken my Grandfather, on my maternal side way back in 1970, it has struck down my real father in 1984, got mom in 1991 and in between took my step-father in 1990, now it seems I must travel the roads they did with the same disease. My Second wife had cancer also but hers was breast cancer and she is still with us today. Thank God for that miracle is all I can say. At least someone survived through it so far, and that’s a plus. Yet, cancer hits different parts of the human body, and for me it has hit the lungs, which on the survival ratings, is the worse one to get, only 16.4 % survive what i have. So the battle begins, I believe come Friday of this week with them taking a part of the mass by biopsy. Then I will know exactly what I am fighting and the severity of it I am sure.

      Each day I wake up thankful for being here still and stopping to look back on my life, to review what I did and didn’t do in it.  I can’t change anything that happened before I was old enough to realize what was going on and could control my own destiny, but, I made the best with what I was handed I think. I can’t change who my parents were, how they divorced or who replaced my father. I can’t change the physical and mental abuse i suffered as a kid, nor can I change the fact I was given away by my mother and then handed back to her when I fought against it. I can’t change the beatings with pipes,fireplace pokers and shovels, or the throwing me down stairs, or yanking from my bed for beatings when I was a kid. But, I survived those too, funny how that happens isn’t it?  I survived being Unwanted in school and at home to move on to surrogate parents who helped me survive and raised me partially and helped to make me who I became. I survived the short stay in the Army, the Army National Guard and then the longer stay in the US Navy, a job that I am very proud of surviving and doing. I survived a nasty divorce and missed my daughters for years and survived false accusations too. Now I must face the road my parents faced as they died, and I am doing so with grace, pride and strength gathered from friends, relatives and my second wife. God Bless her for all she is and does for me, I love her deeply.

Time to list my stories for reading by all and hope some will read them and remember me in someway anyway. I am no Hemingway, I am no Dan Brown or Robert Ludlum either, I am a guy who takes short incidents in his life and careers and makes them into short stories and writes poetry and murder mysteries for fun and to make a few bucks on the side for my wife, who sells them on KIndle e-Books on Amazon.

      Please read a few if you can, I know times are rough in America and money is tight;

My List of stories:”Disappearing Hams”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DZPFKYS

“False Accusations”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYAID6G

“The Burner Man”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DWYZE9I

“The Flying Christmas Tree”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DV80T9A

“The Importance of Christmas”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DS5LUNA

“Dark Secrets Overcome”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DJR1OKG

“Confrontations With Mom”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DC3BQK0

“The House on Phoenix Avenue”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D910XBS

“Children center Lesson and Years (Hamden,Connecticut)”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D6VAS6Q

“UnWanted”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CEKO3KW

“The Chase and Ending”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D6GD8ZY

“Adult Poems of Romance and Lust”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D5L684I

“Mackey”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D50GPJM

The Project Murders, in Broad-View Acres—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D3QZZU8

“Tick, Tock The Infernal Clock”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDU0FIC

“Fishing Days with Dad”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXYI8MS

“Abraham- A Man of Contradictions”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CWNZ3Y6

“My Maria“—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CS3BTOS

“Rusty The Beagle”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CQ3S4LG

“Angie’s Folly”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPMGIAC

“Three Mandolin Murder Mysteries in One!”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00COQNJ38

“Wails of an Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Child”——-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CO92VOS

“Three Navy Stories”——http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNW9C7U

“Three Amigos“—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNV5FMW

“Passing on……………………”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXC952

“God Damn It!”——–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXD1TU

“Women are in Charge!”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CLXBS4Q

“WHy Hide It?”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CK7F696

“The Poems of W.M.M.”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CHQPNQQ

“National Guard Heros——http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CIH88HU

“The Holy Land Murder”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CCCZQ8A

“Romance,Sex and Fools”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CH6VX1U

“What Really Happened to Alex?”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDBX0

“Unattainable Love”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDGDU

“The Northern Woods Murders”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGMRXDC

Thanks for reading my Blog folks!

 

Cancer for Me/ My Stories Live on!


       Well here I go down a road traveled by my parents before me and something I figured would never really be. Before me I lost a Grandfather to cancer in 1970, my mother’s father. Then in 1984, shortly after I found my real father and met him, he died of lung cancer too.  1990- the man who raised me as his son, my step-father died of cancer, then one day and a year later my mother went and followed him with lung cancer too. It seems cancer is in the family for us all and i have tried to tell my daughters to quit smoking before it gets them too, but alas they smoke on, and me well I quit smoking now 6 to 7 years ago, but, I got cancer of the lungs too, recently diagnosed, and the Journey toward Valhalla starts. 

First the coughing and hacking stared, then the spitting up of phlegm and blood for a short period of time. Then light pains in chest and the ability to move fast or do anything heavier than sit and talk goes. I went to the Doctors at this point I was sluggish, slightly painful in chest area and still coughing. Doc says ok let’s get a cat scan,so I agreed. 

One phone call later, I was told we found some spots on your lungs and I am ordering more tests. The tests included, Pulmonary Clinic, Breathing Tests, Blood tests,MRI of brain and finally a Pet Scan in one day!

The next morning 10:00 am the phone rang in my home and I answered it. My Doctor called, and told me, there is a growth in your lung and it is good size and very active on the Pet Scan.  I need two more blood tests from you, and to set you up for a biopsy and to see the surgeons. Stop taking your daily aspirin  and I will set it all up. Cancer had arrived in me, and this time the fight will happen, I can’t and won’t go slowly. As I await the call for the set up of the Biopsy and the Surgeons talk, my wife is with me and we shall talk together to the doctors and make the decisions.

Long ago, I used to say and I always believed I would never live passed 40 years old, but I did and 57 isn’t old, but it’s no spring chicken either. I always believed I had missions to complete in life assigned to me by whoever put us on this planet as human beings, is there any more I have to complete before I am done, only time will tell!

Ok enough on that one, I shall do what needs to be done folks. In the meantime I have my stories I am selling on Amazon’s Kindle e-Books site and sales ares low these days. I was hoping for more but what the hell at least some are enjoying reading them and that counts. Never called myself HemingWay or Ludlum, but, told short stories the best I could to teach lessons, talk of love and write health and murder mysteries. I hope they will be enjoyed by many.

My List of stories:”Disappearing Hams”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DZPFKYS

“False Accusations”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYAID6G

“The Burner Man”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DWYZE9I

“The Flying Christmas Tree”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DV80T9A

“The Importance of Christmas”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DS5LUNA

“Dark Secrets Overcome”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DJR1OKG

“Confrontations With Mom”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DC3BQK0

“The House on Phoenix Avenue”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D910XBS

“Children center Lesson and Years (Hamden,Connecticut)”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D6VAS6Q

“UnWanted”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CEKO3KW

“The Chase and Ending”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D6GD8ZY

“Adult Poems of Romance and Lust”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D5L684I

“Mackey”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D50GPJM

The Project Murders, in Broad-View Acres—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D3QZZU8

“Tick, Tock The Infernal Clock”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDU0FIC

“Fishing Days with Dad”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXYI8MS

“Abraham- A Man of Contradictions”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CWNZ3Y6

“My Maria“—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CS3BTOS

“Rusty The Beagle”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CQ3S4LG

“Angie’s Folly”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPMGIAC

“Three Mandolin Murder Mysteries in One!”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00COQNJ38

“Wails of an Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Child”——-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CO92VOS

“Three Navy Stories”——http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNW9C7U

“Three Amigos“—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNV5FMW

“Passing on……………………”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXC952

“God Damn It!”——–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXD1TU

“Women are in Charge!”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CLXBS4Q

“WHy Hide It?”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CK7F696

“The Poems of W.M.M.”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CHQPNQQ

“National Guard Heros——http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CIH88HU

“The Holy Land Murder”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CCCZQ8A

“Romance,Sex and Fools”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CH6VX1U

“What Really Happened to Alex?”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDBX0

“Unattainable Love”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDGDU

“The Northern Woods Murders”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGMRXDC

 

 

July Flies/ Health/Military Stories and More!


       The month of July moves along at an unbelievable rate and speed for me. Hard to believe it is the 22nd already and that I have been coughing and wheezing now for months on and off. I have had a cat scan that worried my doctor and showed dark shadows in my lungs, that is now two weeks old, next is the 24th of July and a pulmonary clinic appointment, followed by a Pet Scan on the 25th of July.  Do I fear what they may reveal, yes, who wouldn’t, am I overly worried no. I have learned in my 57 years not to panic or get hysterical at all over anything. SO I will deal with each day as it comes and each result as presented to me.

I served 16 years in the Military as I went from the U.S. Army to the Connecticut Army National Guard and then onto the U.S. Navy. Each presents a different kind of  pressure to perform and survive. I’m sure with those lessons and times behind me, I will be fine, besides I am a stubborn old half Scottish, half french bastard!

Anyway, my stories online in Amazon KIndle‘s E-books, on KDP will outlive me I hope as i continue to write and post what I have done. Yes my stories , are not the worlds best, nor are my poems, but I tried to express myself in a way the world could understand the pains, the aches, the laughs and the loves, I hope i achieved that!

From my military life I produced two stories; 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DZPFKYS
Disappearing Hams
A Navy story of humor, and sailors out smarting Officers!
Ya might like this if ya like a laugh now and then and silly stories!

“National Guard Heros”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CIH88HU

I hope some of my Stories will hit ya and you enjoy em!

Mackey-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D50GPJM
The Project Murders, in Broad-View Acres -http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D3QZZU8
“Tick, Tock The Infernal Clock” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDU0FIC
“Fishing Days with Dad” ——http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXYI8MS
“Abraham- A Man of Contradictions” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CWNZ3Y6
“My Maria“—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CS3BTOS
“Rusty The Beagle” —–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CQ3S4LG
“Angie’s Folly”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPMGIAC
“Three Mandolin Murder Mysteries in One!” —–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00COQNJ38
“Wails of an Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Child” —http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CO92VOS
“Three Navy Stories” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNW9C7U
“Three Amigos“–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNV5FMW
“Passing on……………………”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXC952
“God Damn It!”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXD1TU
“Women are in Charge!”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CLXBS4Q
“WHy Hide It?” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CK7F696
“The Poems of W.M.M.” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CHQPNQQ
“National Guard Hereos”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CIH88HU
“The Holy Land Murder”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CCCZQ8A
“The Poems of W.M.M.” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CHQPNQQ
“Romance,Sex and Fools”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CH6VX1U
“What Really Happened to Alex?” —http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDBX0
“Unattainable Love”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDGDU
“The Northern Woods Murders”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGMRXDC

Jobs/Help/Writing/ My Stories


       Yesterday, I attended a meeting with my wife of an Organization intended to help people, Financially and many other ways. People today may think many things are scams, lies, even games but this company does what it says it will and pulls it off. Insurance, for health, life, cars, homes,, Legal Help Prepaid , and an option that allows you to get a job part-time or full-time running your own business! Now the thing is you have to like helping people, you have to like people and communicate openly and do the job, or like any other business, you won’t make it. If done right and you follow what those above you say do and follow the program you can be financially free in five to seven years without a problem!  Does it sound good to you, do you think you could handle it and commit to being a worker in it? Contact my wife and ask her about a business opportunity or help in any of the financial areas I mentioned at mmccurach@comcast.net!

      Next, among some out there, I get complaints on my writing, and stories. They say I did not make them long enough to be called books, I admit I only do short stories not long books and I don’t charge much for what I write. I am only beginning to understand writing as a hobby and job and trying to make what I write as worth while to others and convey what I felt or lived through or what my mind creates for fictional stories. So if you read my works most were not intended to be books but were written into book form for me to make a few dollars extra any help would be appreciated.

Now, talking my stories, I did a few new ones I have posted on Amazon’s Kindle E-books; I hope some will find them interesting enough to try them: 

“Disappearing Hams”— A Navy Story with Humor-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DZPFKYS

“False Accusations”—-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYAID6G- A Story of how one child’s false accusations almost ruined many lives!

“The Flying Christmas Tree“——-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DV80T9A— The Story of how Christmas went out the back door one year!

“Tick, Tock The Infernal Clock”
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDU0FIC
My Story I Wrote, on E-Books on Amazon’s KIndle E-Books

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-Kindle-for-Android/dp/B004DLPXAO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369313575&sr=8-1&keywords=kindle+software+for+pc This is the Kindle Reader App for Windows PCS

As a Disabled American Veteran, I  try to write what I have lived or experienced or every once in a while a totally imaginative story comes to mind and i produce it. I hope when you look at my works, you notice most are fueled by life’s experiences and written in short form because it is how I convey them. Also, since there is not much else a disabled veteran can do, I do this to keep my mind and soul going strong. Thanks to all who read my works and help me to get across the things I say.

 

The Writings of Mine on Kindle e-books on Amazon


Try one of my stories and help a Veteran sell some!

“Angie’s Folly” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPMGIAC

“My Maria”——-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CS3BTOS
“The House on Phoenix Avenue”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D910XBS

“False Accusations”
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYAID6G

A true story of how abuse ruined not one, but three families and lasted for decades!

“Dark Secrets Overcome”

A story of False Accusation of sexual abuse and the destruction the original criminal did not only to his family but to mine too from the period from 1978 to 2013!

“Confrontations With Mom”

My battles with Mom revealed and explored

“UnWanted”

My ChildHood in a Short Story of Truth!

“Adult Poems of Romance and Lust”

“Mackey” an empathy!
only .99 cents on Kindle’s E-books

The Project Murders, in Broad-View Acres

My latest little book! Available Now

“Women are in Charge!”

Wails of an Attention Deficit And Hyper Active Child

Real Life event in a true story!

By me!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDGDU “Unattainable Love”The story of a Forty Year Love Affair from a Distance and the reasons it never was fulfilled!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CCCZQ8A- The Holy Land Murder-2.99

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CD79QL2- The Disease- 1.99

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDU0FIC- Tick Tock, The Infernal Clock-3.99 per copy
Murder Mystery coverts three generations, solved by Estrangement and Time!

 

 

Writing and Programs!


     Writing is a past time for me and I like to do it you see. It is like therapy for a mind stressed out or filled with nightmares and depression. A way to make statements to tell stories and events that happened in real life but change the names and places so no one gets hurt. Yet writing as much fun as it may be to relieve these things for people, it is also an art I am not great at. I try to, I try to I come up short sometimes, or make spelling or grammar errors or the story line is too boring or I repeat things. I have been working on the problems but I find there may not be too many writing places online that  have proper programs to post it all on the Internet with. They are faulty in different ways, no grammar checking, no spell checking, you have to align everything just right to make it work or it looks disjointed or messy or doesn’t line up right. It’s a slow painful process to put a decent story or book online these days.

       Microsoft‘s  Word allows me to set margins, indent, check grammar and spelling, and save as needed till I am ready to go on or end. Yet other programs do that too, but not as good as Word for me.  Each time you write a rant, a rave, a poem, a story or any other thing online including this blog you have to check it all out before you post it or it will never be read or understood if it is.

        Blogs are meant for different subjects and reasons and voices are heard worldwide in many languages and styles. Every nation, culture, race, color or nationality has bloggers today and that is vital to world communication and education. Bloggers today discuss the subjects that affect the world, their nations. politics and much more. That is the purpose of such an exercise and writing, to express what you feel or disagree with, or like, or hate in the written word and get it off your chest so to say, it does work folks.

       But serious writers, try to flesh out characters, locations, and more in stories, details are in the works so to say. I am learning as a writer not all my works are good or even worth reading, but I attempt anyway because I want to, number 1 and number two, because I believe somewhere out there is someone who will understand what I write and like it. All I can do is hope they come up with better writing programs to smooth it all out, help with grammar, dictionaries and formats and more. I try, Lord I try to tell my stories, poems, raves and rants, but sometimes unlike most writers I trip over words and make mistakes. But the ideas, the thoughts, the verses and more get out there and seem to hit some in the mind and heart. Thank God!

My online Works ae Assemble on WattPad.com

Link-http://www.wattpad.com/user/WilliamMcCurrach

 

The Writing Bug!


Each day I wonder what subject to cover in my blog, or what story or poem to write. How does one decide what to put in writing and tell the world or private friends or family?  You don’t want your life explained or examined by strangers or anyone else, so you tend to stay with subjects meant for the public to  read and care about.

       I have covered so many subjects on my blog from Politics, Republican primaries, Democratic too, and benefits that will affect the whole senior population over 50 in the United States. Items such as will Social Security be there for those who paid into it, or will it be all borrowed out? Will Medicaid and Medicare still be there, or will they be phased out by the rich so the poor have nothing left to lean on?

       I have covered the Death of a Diva in Whitney Houston, who all now know died a cocaine related death in a bathtub at age 48. The sad loss of such a talented person hits us everyday, in many ways and each of us is affected a little differently.

       Doctors fighting Cancer, illnesses, and more I have written about. I did a story called The Disease which deals with the rising rate of cancer among people in the USA and how it has affected my life and my beliefs and my way of thinking.

       My stories range of love, and death, and Naval life, but the biggest stories I have ever told are family stories the stories of parents gone wrong, children in pain and survivors.

        My poems have ranges the same breath and width of the human soul, from love, to lust, to health and to death, yet I still fight a subject and write as much as I can, hoping humanity will experience and understand what I say and enjoy some of it. Am I wrong for doing so, I doubt it and i don’t tend to use language that can disturb or upset people I write in plain American English is all.

        The hardest part for any story-teller, poem teller or blog writer, is to flesh out what you write about to show the emotions, fears and cares of the people you write on and the scenes have to be vivid and catching too. The subjects can range of course but we all know, what the audience really wants is something to catch their mind and grab them and carry them through the story so they can look at family and friends and show them or repeat it themselves.

       Doris Kearns Goodwin does that, Robert Ludlum did that when he was alive, and Jack London did it also in the early 1900s. Writing such as Poe gave us poems that hit the soul and make us think, Shakespeare wrote so many plays he is never forgotten. Singers and writers write songs of stories and songs of love, they may range from rock and roll to country to even classical, but they still write and pass it all on.

       America’s past and its future is built on writers and the stories, ideas and poems and songs they write. It is a country that learns lessons from the written, sung and spoken words. In the end it can be the writers of all kinds that can bring the world to  peace or destruction by what they write and show to all of us. Writers carry a large responsibility as well as the respect of many in the world. We all look for the items written that touch our souls, hearts and minds and we find them written by people who are in the end human in every way. That is what is called the writing bug that bites many humans in the world.

Theraphy and Stories and Facts & WattPad


      As I said in a prior blog people suffer PTSD in different ways and deal with it in different ways. My way of dealing with it is to write stories, poems and rants and raves here on my blog and else where.

        My stories range from military ones, to love stories, to sci-fi and more, and even poems I have done. I found a new outlet for many of them now on a web site called WattPad.com. WattPad works by allowing people to submit their stories, books, in different lengths or as compiled by the writer and then helps you promote your writings to the world online.

       It has become an outlet for many different people from young adults to older folks like myself to express or release the writings they have done over time for different reasons. It works on many different operating systems including android, and windows that I know of. It contains hundreds of thousands of stories, poems, and more and is free to read and submit to, a great outlet indeed for many.

      Many of the sites for Writers online help to teach a writer how to write, how to express themselves and each use the knowledge they gather to write in their own styles and ways. Another great Organization and School for writing is Long Ridge Writers here in Connecticut, I took a writing course through them and the editing they do is great and so is the suggestions they give.

        My Stories have now shown up on WattPad, and another website called LongStoryShort has published and accepted my works. It is a proud moment when someone finds out what they wrote is good enough for someone to want to show it to others to read. I have poems and Christmas Stories they published.

       The therapy writing produces for PTSD and Depression is great for many, it helps ease the pressure, strains, tensions of the conditions, So these websites and writing sites are to be thanked for their abilities to get people to write in general whether they are a victim of Depression, PTSD or any other mental condition or physical one too. I actually look forward to writing my blog here daily and writing other stories and poems and rants and raves too  in other places, it is like a relief valve at times on an old steam-powered radiator!. It helps and is fun.