My favorite vet passed away 9 years ago this week. He’s the one that taught me about strong women and got me started on the path to be one.

I grew up surrounded by veterans, loving them all. Every Sunday when visiting Grandmother, the boys – Daddy’s brothers would sit around and revisit their adventures in Europe during WWII. All but the baby were sent overseas. The same with Momma’s brothers. But it was Daddy’s sister that outranked them all. She worked in Europe and later in Korea as a physical therapist and I found her face on the Korean Wall in Washington, DC.

I know I had her in mind when I wrote Dance Partner – my take on a modern veteran disabled in Afghanistan. With her at his side, I have no doubt he’d ready to face anything.

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Jim is back home and existing, but nothing more. The irony of going to a dance club isn’t lost on him. The redhead moving around the floor is the last thing he needs in his life. So what if he can’t take his eyes off her.

It’s been a great day for Wendy, and dancing is her favorite way to celebrate. The hunk’s eyes are on her, but he doesn’t approach. Intrigued she approaches him and learns a lot more about herself than she planned.

Do you like them? Do you read them?  I always have. North Carolina is full of spirits and I still have the Old North State Book of Ghosts Daddy gave me years ago.  

Just for fun, I going to share a ghost story I wrote back when I was writing X-Files Fanfiction – okay my dirty little secret is out, but I learned a lot about writing (and critiques) that way.  Check out  The Girl Under the Bridge. Lydia is famous around High Point, NC though I’ve never seen her myself. I wonder how I’d handle it if I did?

Are there any ghosts near your home? Would you go check them out if there were?

Hope you enjoyed the story – if so, you’re welcome to check out Wraith’s Heart, a more recent story of mine.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Samhain!

Here’s last year’s post

Just a little something for you to check out — Ghost Photos

Some more ghost photos sent in my Mary Roya – enlarge the pics, look at the door at the top of the stairs and in the mirror – major cool!

Just for the record, women got the right to vote on May 19, 1919 (this was only three months before my mother was born). Men got the right to vote in 1776, so it only took us 143 years. Yes, the Native Americans got it after that but that’s a different blog.  

My point? I’m not pushing either party – both are deeply flawed, but it’s the system we have. What I am pushing is that you, my fellow women, need to get out and vote. Whether you’ve been voting for decades or it’s your first time – women, please it’s your time now. It’s not too rainy or windy or cold. You can make the opportunity. Take advantage of early voting at a convenient time. You can take the kids along – Daddy took me every time and even let me put the ballots in the box for him. I knew how important the act was for him and it has become that important for me.

  I hope you want to vote for someone or something instead of against, but in either case, vote. It will count and it is important. The majority of American citizens these days are women. We’re now a force to be reckoned with and we can’t let that slip through our fingers. You’ve all seen what some countries do to keep their women down, uneducated, subservient. We have freedom here – maybe not equal pay and yes there are still places with glass ceilings, but they’re crumbling under our numbers.

Please come with me to the polls and make our voices heard. 

Stepping down from the soapbox and thank you!

Thank you all for joining me on my marathon excerpt posting leading to Release Day for The Melting, Book 2 – The Progression.  I had great fun and I want to especially the winners for leaving me comments on the page and off.

Nancy  B- Bookmark  

Karen W- Bracelet

Rita – The Melting, Book 1

Karen T- The Melting, Book 1

Diane  O- The Melting, Book 1

Lilly G- The  Melting, Book 2

Lorelie R- The Melting, Book 2

Please let me know what format your e-reader is, so I can get these prizes off to you ASAP!

  Thanks again!!