A New Chapter
Greetings, Earthlings!
Life can change quickly. I’m recovering and getting better each day. All of 2024 and early 2025 affected my health. Life has ups and downs, and I hit a long down patch. Recently, I started a hormone treatment meant to help with my PCOS, which has had a big hand in all my recent problems. Now, I’m losing weight and feel more energetic. I hadn’t realized how bad I felt until I started to improve. It’s the beginning of a whole new chapter for me.
Sick had become my new normal. It’s hard to explain wanting to get up and do things after years of blaming myself for being lazy, depressed, and useless. This treatment has lifted a huge boulder off my soul, and for the first time in a long time, anything and everything feels possible.
Reflecting on the year, I thought my focus would be only on getting healthy, but life often has different plans. As my health improved, I was fortunate to meet others who shared my passion for books and art, and a long-time pet project of mine finally started to come to fruition.
That brings me to something exciting: we’re hosting a book and arts festival with no booth charges for our artists and authors, and the doors are open and free for all to attend. Sometimes things feel so bleak, and I feel beyond privileged to be a part of the group of people putting this all together.
If you’re in the area on September 20, join us at the North Dakota Book and Arts Festival at the Reiland Fine Arts Auditorium, UJ campus, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate creativity, meet artists and authors, and enjoy our vibrant community! Don’t miss out—bring a friend, connect, and make memories!
PS
To continue on this positive note, my short story, One Samhain Night, took 4th place in Writer’s Digest’s esteemed writing competition in the Inspirational and Spiritual category. I can now say I am an award-winning author. How about that?
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