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At 2:01am on November 13, 2008, Jean Jessee said…
I am so sorry I haven't been around and I just left everything hanging. My husband has a stoke and well that for me was top prioty, I'm back now, at least I think I am. The way things have been going lately I feel as if I'm only half a person. lol
Hope things are going well for you. I have missed our little chats.
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At 1:02am on September 30, 2008, Jean Jessee said…
I got into interior decorating quite by chance and demand. I have always loved to sew and crochet and knit and well to make a long story short I do any type of needlework you can think of and then some. It just all came natural to me, I'd just pick up the needles and go and in a few hours I'd almost be an expert on it. I also do crafts of every type. I would make little things like aprons and pot holders and the such for neighbors, friends and family. People started bringing me projects to do for them and paying me for it, this was while my children ( I have four ) were small. Someone mentioned to me that there was a machine you could buy that was called a quilting machine and suggested I buy one. I did and one thing led to another and the projects starting turning into matching the drapries and bedding with furnishings so I had to take a interior decorating course and from there I ended up learning upholstry as I often ran into that.If you haven't guessed by now I have ADD thus I have a very, very active mind that seems to never acquire enough knowledge.I have also always been interested in psychology especially the criminal mind. I just could not fathom why they would do the things they did. So my hungry mind starting seeking answers and I ended up with a degree but am continuing my studies with the mind of the serial killer at present. And you're right about a serial killer, they do not know how to feel sympathy for others or even to have a relationship. The hallmark of the psycopath is the inability to recognize others as worthy of compassion, so they dehumanize their victims, in the murder's mind they are worthless objects. The autonomic nervous system of intensely violent people is intensely sluggish. They need a higher level of thrill or stimulation in order to have an intense experience. But, I'm starting to get carried away here, I just get so wrapped up into it I forget how much I'm blabbing.
I haven't written a book yet, I had been so busy raising my children that I just didn't seem to ever have the time but now that they are grown and have given me 12 granchildren, I have been seriously thinking about it. I do have so some short childrens stories and I have tons of poetry and lyrics.Now I am going to have to study up on how to go about puting it together and finding out where to and how to get it published.
I'm really glad we have meet. It's nice to be able to converse with another person about the many facets of the human mind.
Norma Jean
(PS) Sorry this is so long.
At 8:08pm on September 29, 2008, Jean Jessee said…
Thanks for the friend request. I'm also glad to meet another southerner, and also one who seems to have te same interest in the workings of the mind. A very interesting subject indeed.
So how do you like being away from our hills or mountains as I call them. I've been away several times but always come back. I miss my mountains too much.
Norma Jean
At 10:55am on September 29, 2008, Clark Isaacs said…
Hi Mari:
Thanks for the email and as usual I screwed up sending a note to you in reply.
I guess that I got too wordy.
My book is a murder mystery and has two or so books in 1 and the agent at the time said that I needed to have a copy editor. Well, my wife and I went on to learn how to do this and in the columns I do we are about 95 to 98% accurate according to my Newspaper Editor who does my copy.
The book needs to come off the shelf and be written in an up to date style. The main characters will stay but the others? Well, they shift like the wind.

Thanks for the add....

Clark
At 10:43am on September 29, 2008, Dena M. Martin said…
Hi, Mary.

Thanks so much for the add. It's nice to meet you, too. :-)
Looks like you have a signing near me in November. I'll have to see if I can make it there. :-)

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Biography
Trained in counseling and having worked with children, the victims of domestic abuse, and disaster victims, Mari Sloan is no stranger to the intricate workings of the human mind. She spent most of her life in the Deep South, and her writing reflects the convoluted twists and turns of the region. http://www.beaufortfalls.com/Page2.html
Upcoming Work
A sequel to BEAUFORT FALLS, also a serous book based in the Civil Rights movement around 1967/68, and a screenplay version of BEAUFORT FALLS.
Publisher
It's ME! Ink Press
Web Address
http://www.beaufortfalls.com

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The End of an Era

From my blog at:
http://mari-thewritersblock.blogspot.com/

I have a moderately boring life, but, like many people, I'm careful to follow my routine. For a while it was hectic, but with the slowing of the economy, I am finding one thing after another coming to an end. It's almost as if 2009 blasted in, with C H A N G E as its slogan, and nothing IS as it WAS. My schedule changed, eliminating the wonderful Westlake Library book group mid first Wednesday of each month. The same change meant that I… Continue

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