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August 2008
Hello and welcome to my website. I am glad
you stopped by. Let me start by introducing myself and
telling you a bit about me. As you guessed my name is
Loree, and for those who have asked me,
'Loree' rhymes with 'Marie'...blame that on my
Mother:-)
I grew up on a dairy farm...very little
money, but a whole lot of imagination. I always
wanted to be a writer, but received very little support
in pursuing that. In fact, my father once told me,
when I said I wanted to be a writer, 'No you
don't! Writers are crazy people.' Maybe he
was right? :-)
After getting my high school diploma, in
eleven years, I set out to make my way in the
world....by waiting tables.
A year later, I married and became the
mother of four wonderful sons...and years later
re-married...this time four daughters and a son came
with the package.
I retired from the Sheriff's department in
my county, where I was a deputy sheriff, confined in the
county jail...fortunately on the outside of the
bars.
It's hard to believe that it has now
been four years (plus) since my first poem appeared on
the Cards for Fun site, in Canada. Joe was very
encouraging, and must have used the first 50 or so that
I wrote. And when he couldn't 'shut me up', he
subtly suggested that I get a website of my own, so here
I am. I'm grateful that he kicked me out of the
nest, when he did, or this site would never have been
started.
I was lucky to have Lori Strevels,
recommended to me...she is a wonderful web designer,
with a great talent, herself, in picking just the right
graphic, to enhance my written
words.
There is something very intoxicating about
seeing one's written words in print, followed by your
name!
The poems on these pages, are drawn from
my own life's experiences, over the years, and are
meant to touch the hearts of all who read
them, and even, in some cases, put a smile on your
face.
To my faithful readers, thanks so much for
sticking with me, and for all your encouragement.
I especially enjoy hearing from each and everyone
of you. And to new readers, who find me some
way or another, welcome to my home on the net...and I
hope you find a poem here, 'just for
you':-)
It is my fervent wish, that you
all enjoy reading the poems, as much
as I enjoyed writing them.
Keep checking in.....I do not send out a
newsletter, but invite you just to tuck me in your
'Favorites'....I don't take up much space:-) I try
to add, usually, one or two new poems per week...so you
all come back now, you hear?!
 An Overdue Update for my
readers...........
Hi to
all my fans, readers, and those who may even have lost
their way and ended up here by
mistake:-)
I feel
it's time, maybe even past time, for an update on here,
to bring all of you up to speed, and to let me pay the
debt I owe all of you.
As many of you know, 2007 was
not a good year at my house. I lost my youngest
son, my husband of 29 years, and my ex-husband, the
father of my four sons, all in less than 90 days.
I felt totally devastated, and have wondered in the time
elapse since those events, if I also buried
'Inspiration' as well. My writing, which used to
come so easily, and so often, has truly suffered.
I feel that because of that, I have let my readers
down. I am still writing, though it seems each
time I try for something light, it takes a wrong turn,
into something more serious and personal.
I guess I could blame it on my
age? I will soon be 73 years old, and have been
disgustingly healthy compared to my friends and
relatives near my age.
However, I must tell you that all of
this has taken a toll on me, that I was unaware of until
about 3 weeks ago. I have been diagnosed with
'Sick Sinus Syndrome'...which has nothing to do at all
with my sinuses:-) Instead it is a problem with
the upper right chamber of the heart...and I sometimes
wondered if I even had one:-) I have
been being treated with medication as a remedy to
correct my problem, but it obviously isn't working, for
last evening (08-02-08) I ended up spending two and a
half hours in ER at the local hospital. I declined
a 'free ride to Wichita, KS in an ambulance (nothing is
free these days), and a stay (not so free!) at one
of the big hospitals there. I've heard that an
ambulance is rather a rough ride, especially depending
on the driver:-)
I will
be following up tomorrow morning with my doctor, and
will have the insertion of a pace maker scheduled
ASAP.
I
don't intend for that to be anything more than the
lancing of a boil when I was a kid! Oh wait a
minute....if memory serves me correctly, that 'lancing'
was a major operation back then:-) Well, I've
matured a bit since then...probably not as much as I
should have, but I can tell you right now, those doctors
and nurses are in for a rough time. I plan to
leave them with the memory of one patient, who
will make their life as miserable as they do my
own, so that they may even regret their chosen
professions! :-) Just kidding, but it's a
thought!
Just
bear with me...I will be back swinging in sort
order...err...writing that
is.
God
bless all of you, and thank you from the bottom of my
tricky heart!
Loree
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