Quote of the Week:

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Perseverance means the state or quality of being insistent.

Those that succeed don’t give up on themselves.

You never know what might happen if you stop trying….. the perfect opportunity might be just around the corner and if you don’t walk around the corner, you will miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime.Ms Mandi Photo 1

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

Happy Thanksgiving…

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Wow!  Where has the time gone.  Another year and another Thanksgiving.  I am so thankful for my wonderful daughters, my great American Bulldog (Bowz), my husband, and my grandmothers.  I am especially thankful for my followers and my readers. 

And with that I say….. Happy Thanksgiving:)

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

The End…

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The End.  What does this simple sentence mean to a writer?  It can mean many things, opportunity, a successful completion, sorrow, or new beginnings.

The End, the completion of Julia’s Voice.  I’m proud and happy, but it is kind of like the same sort of feeling when you finish reading a really good novel.  The characters that have come to be a part of your life have left, it’s the ending of a story.  You ask yourself, “Now what do I do?”  You were connected to something and now you feel a sense of “sorrow?”

Until I start and finish my next novel…….The End

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

A Poem

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Someday you will cry for me,

like I cried for you.

 

Someday you will miss me,

like I missed you.

 

Someday you will need me,

like I needed you.

 

Someday you will love me,

but I won’t love you.

 

Written By:  An Anonymous Writer

Presidential Elections

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We have elected our President, for the next four years.  Congratulations President Obama.  I am so happy that our country saw through the lies to the truth. 

Women have worked so hard to make a place in the world.  We have fought for equal rights.  We have fought for equal pay.  We have fought for respect.  We have fought for our right to be individuals.  It is good to see that we are moving forward and not backwards.  This is 2012.

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

Girl You are Amazing

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I normally write about others and their situations, but today I am going to write something raw. 

I drag myself out of bed at seven in the morning, only to stare at my reflection in the bathroom mirror, for longer than I originally planned.  It seems that some days are harder to get out of bed than other days and I am amazed that I even bother trying.  

I am starting to feel the fist signs of anxiety.  My stomach is churning into knots for some unknown reason.  Panic engulfs me.  I am scared.  I have gone through so much pain and change this past year and wonder how I can go on.  It would be so simple to just check out, but that is an impossible consideration.  I have people who love me and count on me.  I could not leave them behind to endure this life without me.  I am grateful for the people around me, who love me because there are so many others that want to take me down. 

As humans, we grow so attached to our possessions that we forget that our possessions mean nothing to the people who love us, if we were to check out.  Today, I broke down from the weeks’ stresses, wanting to give up, crying for all the unfairness that life has bestowed upon my family and I. 

Then my best friend, in the whole world, dropped what he was doing, to come over to my house.  Hearing his knock, I opened the door, as black tears streamed down my cheeks.  He said nothing, but walked into the foyer, pulling me into his arms, holding me while I cried.  He said that no material possession was more important than I am.  That without me, what importance would any material possession have to shine greater than me. 

When you are feeling lost and like you cannot go on, just remember that you can always buy a new house or car.  You can always get a new job, but you can never get another “YOU”. 

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

 

 

 

Sorry for My Absence

Dear Readers,

I am sorry for my absence over these past two weeks.  I have read your posts and will be responding to them shortly.  I truly love reading every one of your posts and comments.

I have been extremely busy editing Dear Paxton for agent submittals.  Once I have completed editing, I will be returning to writing more consistent blogs and articles.

Thank you to all my readers:)

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

Donating Women’s Business Suits to Charities

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Ask Ms Mandi is asking for your support in donating women business suits to women in need.  So many times single women get stuck in the rut of struggling without the opportunity to find a good job to support herself and her children.  Let’s face it, welfare is not going to provide a stable income for a single mother to properly care for her children.  She will need a place to live, food, clothing and a vehicle.  It is near impossible to get around without a vehicle these days, especially in Southern California.  We need a car to get to the grocery store, take our kids to school, and especially to get to work. Sometimes work is over 30 miles away. 

 

What is a single mother to do when she is barely making it on welfare.  We all know that welfare helps, but it just isn’t enough to get a single mother with children out of a bad situation.  Everyone, at times, needs a helping hand, a push to get over the rough times. 

 

In today’s poor economic times, it is hard to find a job, especially if you are not educated or properly skilled in the workforce.  Study’s say that first impressions are important.  It is hard enough to get that interview, but even harder to get the job.  We must look our best when attending the interview, to guarantee our success to landing the job, that will get us over the hump and back into being a successful, working citizen, off of welfare. 

Nobody wants to be a statistic. Did you know that the poorest economic group are single mothers.  Why is that, you may ask?  A primary reason for this statistic is that women get married and raise the children, while the husband obtains the career and makes the money for the family.  Things go astray and love fades, ending in divorce, while leaving the women to take care of the children with no education and no income.  She may not even get child support, if you married a dead-beat dad, who just doesn’t care about her or his children’s needs.  She may get a minimum wage job, but her children are too young and need to go to daycare.  She will spend most of her income on daycare services with little or no money left over for her and the children to survive on.  It’s a sad story, but too true.

 

Ask Ms Mandi is asking for your help and support.  The first impression and most important matter is how we look when interviewing for a job prospective.  Ask Ms Mandi is asking for donated women business attire clothing.  I will be donating these items to shelters, churches, and half-way houses to help single mothers to re-gain the confidence to walk into an interview with pride and a strong self-esteem.  This will help her to be the best that she can be for herself and her children, getting her off of welfare.

 

Ask Ms Mandi’s goal for the rest of the year, is to donate as many women business attire suits, dresses, outfits to the needy to help these women regain their lives back.  A lot of these women were once women just like you and I; however, they have fallen on hard times, losing their husbands, their homes,their dignity, their self-respect, and their freedom to live the life that they and their children deserve.  Ask Ms Mandi will be donating women business attire too and asks you to contribute to this great cause. 

 

If you want to help, please contact me by e-mail and I will give you the address to send your donations to.  Don’t forget, donations are a tax-deductible as well, so you will be benefiting women in your society and getting a tax break too.

Thank you for your support!

 

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

 

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REMEMBERING 911

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September 11, 2001.  I remember the day as if it were yesterday.  I remember walking into my house around 8:30 am, turning on the television, and watching in horror as the second airplane crashed into the Twin Towers.  The thing that struck me most odd that morning was watching the individual white sheets of paper flutter around the streets of New York, thousands and thousands of paper.  Who had touched them, who had just recently stored them into the filing system, who was missing them?  It was an eerie thought to wonder about these thousands of sheets of papers coming from the Twin Towers.  I do not know why this particular image has stayed in my mind for all these years, but it has.  Perhaps my mind needed to fixate onto something less horrific as watching a city fall apart to an awful bout of terrorism.  The images we endured that day will forever be stuck in our minds.

September 11th is a very special and memorable day to my family and I because we named our second daughter after a Naval Contractor who had died on September 11th in the Pentagon.  We named her Julian Cooper.  She reminds us every year on 911 of the loss we as individuals, families, and as a nation, had to endure on that fateful day eleven years ago on September 11, 2001.

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi

Forty is a Time to Grow

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Forty is a time to grow.  This is a crucial age.  This is a time for women to make changes.  These changes may be related to relationships, career, inspirational, or soul-searching.  The decade when woman are forty, she must make some serious decisions.  When she was younger, time wasn’t against her.  Now that she is getting older, time is more of a factor. 

During a women’s forties, she needs to make some life-long decisions.  Don’t stay in an unhealthy relationship.  Find true love.  Don’t stay in a career that bores you.  Find out what is exciting and go after that job prospect.  This is the time to travel and meet new people and experience new places.  Your children are probably old enough to take care of themselves, so this is the time to re-connect with yourself or to find your self again.

Enjoy being forty.  You are still young and beautiful.  This is the time to shine, so shine.

Written By:  Ask Ms Mandi