Welcome to the weekend!  I cannot help but wonder if someone is trying to tell us something.  We started the week with an earthquake and we are ending it with a hurricane.  I was so worried about my parents in Florida my Dad is just finishing up his first round of radiation for lung cancer.  The more we listen to the weather reports the more frightened we get.  My common sense tells me we will wake up Sunday morning to a tropical storm.  We will be prepared and hope for the best.

I am hoping we don’t lose power because I do have the weekend off and it would be so much fun to go blog hopping all weekend.  I can always be found over at Mrs.4444 for Friday Fragments.  http://www.halfpastkissintime.com

If Java is available this weekend I miss the over 40 crowd at http://nevergrowingold.blogspot.com

How about those Crazed Fans, fun  http://theblogentourage.blogspot.com

I have exciting fragments this weekend.  My friend Vanessa over at http://sandcastlesandsnowforts.blogspot.com  invited me to hook up over at Rach Writes for the “Writers Platform-Building Campaign.”  I have been following Rach for a long time.  This is a commitment but will certainly be a lot of fun too.  Check it out; if interested you can sign up until 8/31.

http://rachaelharrie.blogspot.com

I am so excited that my blog is now a finalist in the CBS Most Valuable Blog Contest.  I hope when you think of it you will vote for me.  Voting is once a day until 9/9…thank you to everyone who has gotten me this far.

http://philadelphia.blogger.cbslocal.com/most-valuable-blogger/vote/misc/

My blog is called: “They say Everyone has a Story”  thank you all so much for your support XXXOOO

I had 3 winners last week for “The Big Contest” and not 1 this week.  It is so easy all you have to do is click on the trailer tab up there…follow the link and leave a comment.  Hopefully a good one!…come on go for it…

“BRISTOL bOYZ STOMP” is so close to being out of production and into marketing.  My emotions go from bittersweet and sad to proud and accomplished.  I am working on the next 2 books simultaneously.  The system is working well for me.  You can read about those up there under books.

I won a book from Author-Palooza!!  Lisa Vaughn’s “The Gifted Ones.”   I just started reading it last night.  It is really good.  I will do a real review next week.

I received a beautiful new blog award also.  Thank you so much to Deirdre Coppel.  She is an amazing artist and I love the award!  Go see the amazing artwork for yourselves  http://astorybookworld.blogspot.com

I am not having fun with wordpress!  I am working on having these fun links put over there in the sidebar where they belong…and having some other stuff taken away.  I am still having cognitive difficulties, remnants of my concussion. Thankfully the Smart Guy is helping me.  If you need him you can find him to the right under partners.

Stay safe if you are in harms way this weekend.  I am off to finish preparing for Irene’s visit.

My favorite quote this week: An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.  ~~Washington Irving

Doreen