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I live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State; Cortland County. There are more cattle than people here. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. My road is barely paved. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm.

My house is a big, century...more I live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State; Cortland County. There are more cattle than people here. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. My road is barely paved. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm.

My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.

No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)

That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!

And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)

Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my partner, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 190 pounds and 165 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line.

She has a story of her own, my cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still.

My partner is an artist, a mechanic, and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I am. But we’re true soulmates. We share a demanding hobby--a 90 gallon salt water “reef” aquarium where we’re growing gorgeous corals and a few fishes, too (clowns, damsels and a blenny, so far.) In addition to the dogs and the fish (and each other!) we enjoy kayaking, walking, riding our bikes, and being outdoors as much as possible. We’re building some beautiful dreams together. Co-creating, you might say.

I feel I’ve risen from the ashes of those hard times. There are still a few lingering residual after effects, but those are just some stale old vibrations in need of cleaning up, For the most part, my life no(less)

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The biggest part of living a stress-free-life is you, who you are, how you think, your general attitude and approach to living. We all know people who seem happy and easy all the time. We complain about how they don't plan ahead or worry or do things according to the rules, and yet marvel at how everything always just seems to magically work out for them. Sometimes society views these

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	An Enchanted Season (Includes: Psy-Changeling, #0.5; Murphy Sisters, #1) by Maggie Shayne (Goodreads Author), Erin McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Nalini Singh (Goodreads Author) 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,917 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Thing (Includes: Warriors of Poseidon, #1.5; Guardians, #1.5) by Maggie Shayne (Goodreads Author), Marjorie M. Liu (Goodreads Author), Alyssa Day (Goodreads Author) 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,830 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weddings from Hell (Night Huntress, #1.5; Brotherhood of Blood, #3.5; Nicki Styx, #2.5) by Maggie Shayne (Goodreads Author), Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Author), Terri Garey (Goodreads Author) 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,739 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Of Twilight (Wings in the Night, #12) 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edge Of Twilight (Wings in the Night, #10) 4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 1,146 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight Hunger (Wings in the Night, #7) 4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,219 ratings — published 2002 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demon's Kiss (Wings in the Night, #13) 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Embrace The Twilight (Wings in the Night, #8) 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Twilight (Wings in the Night, #11) 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 876 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.”
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“Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did.”
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