Today, I woke up feeling nostalgic and peaceful. I felt emotional but the tears would not fall. I had a good feeling in the pit of my stomach like something unexpected was going to happen. I didn’t know what to think. We went out and enjoyed ourselves, came back home, and then I heard the UPS truck pull up in front of my house and leave a box on my porch. I went to the door and picked it up, and low and behold, it was my books! Yes, my books arrived today! All I could do was open them slowly until the box was completely open. I reached inside and pulled them out, tears filled my eyes, and I began to weep with tears of joy. I thanked God for blessing me for writing my book. I would have not known last year that this year I would be an author. Everything has come full circle this year so far. I cannot wait to see what the end of the year is going to be like for me. I cannot wait to see what else God has in store for me.

You cannot see it, but I have tears of joy in my eyes. I have been waiting for this day for a good while. They came earlier than expected. I was told it would be about three weeks to get here to my address. I am still letting it all sink in. The reality of it all is so very overwhelmingly emotional. I still feel like I am dreaming. I have accomplished something in my life that I thought I never would. I thought it would always be a dream. I often thought that dreams did not come true, because that was all it was just a dream. I have faced a lot in my life, and it is the reason why I wrote my book. I wanted the world to know that there are people who go through things all of their life living in silence, but there is a way to get your story told, it can be written by yourself, or someone else can write it for you while you tell them the story. I am fortunate to be able to write for myself. It was not easy though. I did have rough patches where I would just stop writing for days at a time. I had to gather my thoughts and put things back into perspective so I could focus and keep my mind clear.

Writing is a journey that your mind takes you on. It takes you back to moments in your life that had been long forgotten about. You get the chance to relive moments in time. Moments that made you laugh, moments that made you cry, and moments that made you scream at the top of your lungs. Writing a story makes you think about things that you are going through to the point that if you need to forgive someone for something you will. It has its high points, and it has its low points. Writing is a mystery; you never know what your mind will bring back to memory.

Well, again, thank you all for joining me on this writing journey. There are many more books to come. Working on my second book right now, I will inform everyone when it is completed, published, and when it is posted online to sell. Just in case you have not visited in a while, the price is $8.99 for the soft cover, and the E-book is $3.99. The E-Book is on Kindle. They both are on Amazon, and Barnes & Noble online.

My Life: From the Back Burner written by LA’ Brea Aquaria