Jolene's Writings Around the Web

To All My #GenZers out there You Don't Know What You Missed - we did expect to have some privacy when we closed the door to one of these things. In Later years they just had the phones hooked to a metal plate so the privacy issue was no longer valid - Gotta know what your rights are and keep up with the changes.

 Illumination comes from reading, I firmly believe that. The more you read and discuss what you read the more informed we become as humans. Today's question - Why is this law also applied to every single legislative person in our government? They should be subject to each other as well as we are subject to them. - Let me know in the comments below.

Just to make myself totally crazy on top of doing # NaNoWriMo2023 , helping a fellow author republish her romance series on #Draft2Digital and keeping my other client #FirstCoastRomanceWriters websites maintained, creating blog posts and digital media promos on all of the social media accounts, as well as all of my own companies; I have decided to go back to college! Yes, I know, I must have some neuro-divergent thing but I have always taken on more than I should my whole life. I just do not know how to quit and relax. Well, I did pretty much hibernate throughout most of 2022 after losing my father, mother, and grandmother along with a couple of cousins and an uncle-in-law,  during 2021. Then I broke my shoulder on the day after Christmas in 2022. That put me down and slowed me down for six months. So, I guess I am making up for lost time.  Wish me luck or pray for my sanity - both are appreciated.

Creating workbooks for kids is always a bit of fun and maybe, someday, it will lead to a full-time income as well. Teaching a new generation of children about our great Florida Public land areas and how to keep them preserved for their own children can only be a good thing. Also, they will learn some great survival skills as well. With the addition of the State Park Word Bingo Games, we have decided to add the spiral-bound formats to each of the workbooks as well as the paperbacks. Check out my workbooks https://workamping-in-florida.org/product-category/books-by-jolene/

  Jolene's Book and Writers Talk Back on the Air after Hurricane Idalia Our experience with the third hurricane I have ridden out or is it the fourth. It is the first one going through my brother's home area in over 100 years thought. We were so lucky in that we had quite a few large water oaks come down all around the house by only one did any damage. Tony, his friends and Katie and Jason worked hard and fast to get us back under cover. I filed with FEMA and hopefully we will get a grant to put the siding back onto the house and a roof over the house. The trees are another story. They got most of the out of the driveways and across the road side of the property. Every day they do a little more on the back part of the property. There is some big old logs out there that can probably become a house if they can get their logging sawmill going sometime soon. I finally got the next podcast edited and posted for the author Sharon Brubaker. While editing this particular episode I noti...

For all my fellow authors out there. Make sure your website is up-to-date and all the words and links are what you need them to be. Of course, if you don't have a website yet. I can help you with that. Today, during my downtime because of the hurricane I am doing quick editing on my sites as it doesn't take a lot of bandwidth on my cellphone. Plus, I only have about 4 hours of electricity on the gas generator before it runs out of gas and needs to shut down to cool off for a while. We have been without electricity and water for the last three days. It looks like it may be through the weekend and perhaps even sometime next week. Uggggg  Could use some clients next week if anyone needs anything done. - hint - hint 0

Jolenes Books and Writers Talk - Episode 11 - Author Mallory OConnor - award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction books we talk about University of Florida Press and publishing with them, hybrid publishers, her latest cookbook/memoir/Work of Art book that encompasses 60 years of her and her artists husband John's life and love of food and wine. Lots of great information. Visit Mallory's website: https://oconnorartllc.com/

Seriously, what makes you happy right now in your life? We all have different things that make us happy at different stages of our life. Normally, or I should say for most people that would be something much different in your childhood that your teens, your twenties, and your thirties as well as now in my sixties. Some much has changed over my lifetime and so many things have sadly stayed the same. For today, making videos, writing my fiction stories and helping other authors along with their own writing and publishing journey has been making me happy.