Amazing Day Again

My laptop is at the doctor's office getting set up so I can use it!!!!! All my files are being downloaded on it to, configured, that's the word I was looking for, the doctor is configuring my Toshiba and I like it!Qwrite asked me for an article, and I am working diligently on a humourous account of trying to get published, you know, like a humourous account of having forty lashes. Love you all, K

Abundance Dance

How similar to dance to Abundance. My thinking has become more in tune with the things that I am learning it increasingly releases any fears that may have been lingering and allows me the freedom to imagine and create everything that I want in my life. It feels like my time is now and that it is all happening. The Secret has been a big help and I will continue to watch it and learn to apply the Law of Attraction. I am attracting you and that is amazing. Love you all K.

Finally!

Wayne, finally has watched the Secret. He is just finishing it so I don't know what he thought, but he has to learn something from it about the Law of Attraction and Manifesting so good on him and good on us. My publisher called me, I had forgotten that I was to go to Toronto and he also said that they are looking at a national thrust for me, they have to think outside the box with me. The Toronto Globe and Mail will do a feature on me and I will be on the radio again. Besides I have two speaking engagements lined up and ctv and cbc television are both very interested. This book is a big hit. I love you all. K

Share the Secret

I finally saw The Secret today and it was everything that I thought it would be and everything that I have been doing. Writers House sent me a letter and Maya wrote a personal note in the corner about how the book gave her hope. I sent her back a note asking if she could find me an agent. The Canadians are winning after 2 , 3-1 , Kovalev got two goals so far. I just made my famous muffins, Kyle is at his friend Felix and Quinn is sick with a low-grade fever and a cough. Matthew is supposed to come up tonight and Wayne too. Wayne will stay for a few days, that is so great, he can watch the Secret with me and learn to apply the Law of Attraction. My mother went into Montreal with my dad and was really tired upon her return. I am starting another book but I must choose which one. Love you all.

Tired, Happy and Loved

Wayne asked me to drive into Montreal to visit his dad with him at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, he has prostate cancer and was operated on Wednesday. I arrived at 10:30 at Uncle Yvon's garage to meet him and Wanda was there. Wayne's older sister came with us to the Hospital and I stayed until 8:30. The drive home was a little scary as I am wiped. There was a fellow in the next bed with two broken legs from Sri Lanka whose name was Thangaraja. He used numerology and palmistry to tell us about ourselves and our relationships, he was bang on. Even Wayne had his palm read and couldn't believe it, and it was his first time. All I heard was that he was perfect, Thangaraja really got that wrong! Just Kidding, he is perfect, as we all are and don't you forget it. Love Karen

Radiothon, Toronto Globe and Mail and Me

Getting more popular, hope it translates into sales. Buy the book. I have been invited on the radiothon for the Montreal Children's Foundation to speak as a guest with Tommy on CJAD but it will be on all three radio stations. Also the Toronto Globe and Mail asked for a copy of my book. It has to take off. It just has to. Took the old car to the garage for simple little things and it was $532.00 for ball joints, bearings or something?! Buy the book. Maybe I'll visit my fiction before I start Me And My Three Sons. Love You All, Karen

Catch me this week- next week- who knows?

The computer will be brought to Montreal on Monday by Wayne and I may be laptopless! All of you with dirty minds (you know who you are) I said laptopless not topless. The Women's Institute has asked me to be a guest speaker, I am really looking forward to it. Slept most of the day, quite worn out, I am trying to catch up but it can be hard. Picking up Dad from Florida tomorrow instead of today, I got an email from him saying that he was leaving my mother and staying in Florida and that the photo in the next email would explain everything. It was one of him and Marilyn. My mother laughed her head off. I am thinking of getting a book of Idioms. They are absolutely fascinating. Send me your good wishes, send me your positive energy, I feel a little tired today and could use it. I love you all. K.

How could I neglect you?

I have been so attentive about writing but with no comments, I am feeling slightly slighted. I had my second to last class tonight and got home about an hour ago. Time to get in bed because, Kyle gets me up at 6:10, that is not the right hour for me. Anyone that has read my book knows how much I like to sleep. I would go to bed at 1am and get up around 10am. I may just start a sequel to my book, all I need is for that to catch on too! An agent from heaven, angel and agent are almost the same word. A nice boy named Julien bought my book today for his mother Lynne, she had two sons too. Except I have three sons so ergo, my next book will be called Me And My Three Sons and don't be expecting any more babies out of my almost fifty year old eggs. Love to you all. K.

Gonna get me an agent today!

Off to Concordia to get me an agent, the snow is coming so I trust that all will go well and to further complicate things, I have to pick up Kyle and Pascal at their school at 9:45 tonight. Jeffrey Moore will be on a panel today and I look forward to seeing him and giving him a copy of my book. Love you all.

Can't seem to get in the flow of the traffic

I drove my Dad to the airport this morning. We took highway 10 to Dorval and experienced traffic tie-ups all the way to the bridge, a common occurence for someone living in the Eastern Townships. I stopped at my sons's to see how he was after the death of his grandfather on the 13th and it was like rousing the dead. I should not have rung the bell. It seems all grandpa wanted after he died was a party, they must have had a hell of a lot of champagne. Then I hit major traffic near exit 29. A pickup truck smashed into a cement structure and wrapped itself around the small building. It also took out a large billboard of the local ADQ candidate in the upcoming provincial election. My newly returned friend Eva made me lunch and I came home and read yesterday's news. It was very disorienting as I had read today's paper on the way in. Love to you all, K

Amazing Day, Kyle's Fourteen Today

I have had another best day, I met with Helene this morning about me becoming an Aloette sales woman, very exciting, we are well suited. Then I met Christine at lunch and spoke to the lady at the next table, she was so interested in the book that she went right back to the book store and bought it. Then they read a bit and she went back to buy another one, for a gift. I signed both copies and she said she would tell her friends that own a bookstore in Ottawa to get the book in because it was so wonderful. They read the first paragraph at lunch! Christine was amazed at me in action, she said Oprah will come there to film me in action. Had the boys in for their English lesson, played Scrabble and I explained "kit and caboodle" Going to see Al Gore's doc. tonight. Life is good, life is sweet. Love you all. K.

they keep throwing money at me

I have been doing some serious abundance work lately, remember that propane bill?, anyway, it seems in the last few days, things have shifted. I am not talking great, huge pots of money, but, for instance, the marketing firm Leger & Leger want my opinions on the government, and they are going to pay me $60. for two hours. Well, did they pick the right person, one with a lot of opinions and one who could rightly use that $60. People have been paying me for books that I thought I wouldn't get paid for and let the bounty flow. My former father-in-law passed away today, my son just called me. John was special, he will be missed. I love you all, K

Time change, time smange

If my child had not set the alarm this morning, I would still be asleep. Being a night owl by nature, I wrote my book mostly between 8pm and 1 am (except near the deadline, no longer had the luxury) First draft finished of my essay, will review this morning and hope that my brain turns on. Class tonight, my nails need doing. Poem for the day : Wayne
my man can be small
or not at all he waits
To be happy or not
and he still is attending
to his needs are great
and yet he denies
what he musts have
or have not ever
what he really is
crying for love and
security is overated
All he really, really
Really is what he
imagines it to be
Or not and then if
he intends to be
happy every day
He will.

Just another Sunday

Went to the Buffet Kirin on Tachereau Blvd for the kid's birthday supper with my parents so the boys could see their dad. Matthew was working 34 hours at the bar this weekend and was unable to join us. It was bittersweet but not going to last forever, Wayne will be home soon. I worked some more on my essay and should have it finished today, good thing, it's due tomorrow. Finally know how to spell tomorrow, could never remember if it was two m's or two r's or both, now I think, spells like sorrow. One m and 2 r's, that is correct isn't it? Woke up to a patch of sunlight on my bed and the hour moved forward in keeping with Daylight Craving Time. The blue sky outside looked miraculously incongrous with the drifting snowflakes. The ice banner hanging off our tin roof dripped and reflected silver in the sun rise. I was grateful for a moment, for an hour, for the day. I love you all.

With Friends like this!

I have a friend named Myrna who has been a rock for me. Even though we rarely see each other and don't talk that often she has always been there for me and I for her. We are usually living in different cities but even that has not affected the deep love and respect we have for each other. I wish all of you could find a friendship such as ours, that sustains and feeds our souls. On to local news, my publisher has cleared the way for Robert Leckner to be my agent, now all he has to do is want to represent me and we are off to the races. Why do I need an agent? The book biz is tough, and rough and not for the thin-skinned. He would (keep your fingers Xed) bring my book to an American publisher and then I could pay the propane bill. Quinn's party was yesterday and I managed to do some work on my essay due Monday entitled "Striking Symetry of Silence, Quantum Mechanics and Verisimilitude in Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter and Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries" How's that for a Historiographic Metaphysical Study? I'm not too sure what some of those words mean but they sure sound good. I will be so glad to see the end of this class in four weeks. K

Can it get any better?

I don't care what people think of me. So if you are offended when i say that my life if perfect, you are in the wrong blog. I don't mean that i have things easier than you or that i have no problems. Just two weeks ago the propane people didn't want to give us heat because we owed them money. But i really feel that everything that happens to me is perfect and is for a good reason, even though I don't always know why, I don't have to know why. It just is and I accept that.
Here's a poem for you, Poem of the day if you like:
Time As A Single Point / Where the time goes/ Who knows/ Maybe it doesn't/ Maybe it stays still/ A single sharp moment / And we travel through it.// Maybe that's all there is/ This second, this time/ Maybe we have to consider/ To caution, to be circumspect/ To savour, enjoy and respect./ This one single special moment of time. I love you all

Oprah here we come

Just got a phone call from an old friend in England, she just happens to be named Karen too, two. What joy to talk with her. CBC television's Sue Smith is interested in my book. Oprah is next. Love to you all

Kudos if you actually found my blog

I don't know how anyone can find this blog and i've tried, people ask me and I don't know what to tell them. I am working on an essay due for class next week and the kids are off for spring break. It's -20 out and we are staying huddled around the wood burning stove. I love you all. Karen

I Felt The Earth Move and The Universe Respond

I drove on the highway yesterday in white-out conditions, cars off the road and on the way back from class an eighteen-wheeler lay forlornely on its side like an abandoned dinosaur. Today the roads were worse and it is -40 degrees with the wind chill. I picked up a guy WALKING to work. He said he would buy my book. I went to A's house for tea around noon and we did an intending circle and we both felt an incredible energy, we were literally covered in goose bumps. It was one of the most thrilling moments of my life. She felt it so strongly that she was close to tears, as I was. I told her that I had been intending to receive a Canadian dictionary, the big one with the gold leaf pages. She then gave me her Random House dictionary, must weigh over ten pounds, complete with pressed flower inside. My life couldn't be more perfect, I intend the same for you, I love you all, Karen and Thank You.

Never ever give up hope!!!

I just had a wee good cry. Wayne (the husband) was home from the big, bad city for 16 hours, minus 9 hours for sleep, that left us seven hours and we spent almost two going out for breakfast. He installed Word in my new laptop (remember my intending, $500. Toshiba from Staples?) That left us four hours for the whole week. What do you think we did? So I had a cry when he left. Just as he was pulling out of the driveway, I ran out with a broom (to clean off the propane tank out back) and stopped him. I wanted another kiss but he took one look at My Mother's hat on my head and said, "You are turning into your mother." I must say that I look nothing like her but the hat does. He is starting to come around about things and I won't say more until I know for sure, but it's looking better. We should manage to pay the propane bill $$$$$$$, but hey, it's tight. So buy the book. Tell your friends and for God's sake email Oprah and tell her too! I love you all. Karen

Almost Ran Over A Turkey!

I had to drive Kyle (middle son) to a friend's house to sleep over so that they could go to a girl's house tomorrow for a party. On the way down a highway, a turkey (we think) sauntered on to the road. I honked at the bird to get out of the way as I slowed down and the kids, (Kyle and Quinn) couldn't beleive it. I sent 11 emails to agents in Canada yesterday requesting representation and have already received two very polite rejections. It's snowing yet again, we just had 30 cm, get ready for more. The total eclipse of the moon is between approx. 5:30 and 7:45? tonight, but the clouds will most likely obscure any sighting. I went to the bookstore with the kids last night for the 50th anniversary of The Cat In The Hat. Louise Penny the author was there to help animate it. It was charming, high energy and we had cake. Quinn pinned the tail on The Cat and won a t-shirt. Love you All Big Time, Would love to hear from you, Really, Really would, Karen

Asked the Universe for a new Laptop & Got It!

Feel kind of silly writing this blog and not having an audience but if you build it they will come. I needed a laptop because Wayne (the husband) wants to take his to the city while he is working there and I would be left keyless and clue-less. I did creative visualization and intending and asked specifically for a new laptop that would cost $500. and be free, meaning I wouldn't actually have to pay for it. The propane people want their $$$$. Three days after my intending, MY MOTHER gave me $500. and when I went to Staples (Bureau en Gros in Quebec) they had a new Toshiba in the back for, you guessed it, $500.00 Goldarn amazing!! I sent an email to Annie's Mailbox today about how desperate I am about the book getting out, I don't expect anything there. Actually, I don't expect anything anywhere. Kids are home,it's a snow day, made muffins and played chess. Love You Much, K.

My Moment of Clarity

It seems the smiling has helped. I didn't win the Millionaire Life draw yesterday but I got a response letter from Writers House in New York and they want to see the book. I also had a great message on my phone when I got home today from A. and she said that my intending for her got her a coffee date with G. She was full of gratitude towards the universe. I'm all for that. She has been intending for me to get my book on Oprah. I've been asking people to email the show if they've read the book and loved it! So far everyone has agreed.

I had a revelation yesterday, sort of a moment of clarity and it's probably one of the first ones I've ever had. Wayne (the present husband) who's working in Montreal 6 days a week and who I only see on Saturday nights, had told me that he saw a house in the city that he was interested in. A ball of fear formed in my stomach about moving back from the country (lovely Knowlton) and my parents down the street. Well this moment of amazing grace came as I was in the tub and soaping my face. Basically the message was: "Don't have fear. What ever is going to happen is going to happen and there's nothing you can do about it. So have joy, be happy and do the best you can every moment." I must say, that sure cleared things up for me. Hope it does for you too. Your friend Karen. I love you all.