• NETTIE-OLOGY: THE HEART OF NETTIE

    NETTIE-OLOGY: : THE HEART OF NETTIE- I WRITE I have allowed people to dictate my time and influence my thinking that ends today. I am not the entertainment committee- don’t just drop by. My kitchen is not self-serve; when you do stop by uninvited don’t expect me to offer you anything. If I want your opinion I will ask for…

  • LEGACY

      NETTIE-ISM: It is not what you leave your daughters but what you are giving them while you are living that is important.   Every time I eat a sweet potato pie I remember when my grandmother made them, I also remember when my mother realized her mind had gone and could not make them anymore. At some point my…

  • A WRITERS’ JOURNEY

    This has been an unbelievably stressful year! I began it editing FAMILY LEGACY (working title), blogging on my site NETTIE-OLOGY and making YOUTUBE VIDEOS consistently and then my computer crashed. After a few months of woe is me I got my computer fixed and continued editing, blogging and making YouTube videos. AND THEN I got an idea for another book,…

  • IT’S WHO I AM

    I am 100% woman; my mother was 100% woman; my grandmother was 100% woman, and I am sure my female ancestors were all 100% woman. I come from a long line of intelligent, hard working, free thinking women who appreciated being female.  Furthermore, I love being a woman with all of its’ traditional perks, like men opening the door for…

  • SELF MONITIZATION – writers need an income while they write!

    I finally mentioned paypal on a blog post because I know Google will never pay me what I am worth! I do not have thousands of followers, nor do I have hundreds of subscribers. I don’t write: sexually provocative thoughts, angry political ideology, or feel good messages that appeal to the masses but have no biblical basis. I will not…

  • A NETTIE-ISM: PTSD

    Dealing with PTSD. I recently had a family member die, who lived with PTSD, when I lived near him I did not ‘get’ his personality, we were never close. I had heard mention of his difficulty since returning from the war but I can’t even say which war, I think it was Vietnam. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, PTSD, was non-existent…