Yesterday it came to my attention that four areas on my web site are not working correctly.  I was unaware of this because my computer does not reflect these technical errors. The areas are under the following four icons on my site’s toolbar: “My Book” ; My Articles” ; “My Favorite Quotes” , and I believe, “My Blog” page as well.  When people go to these pages the content/material (highly important information) DOES NOT SHOW UP AND IS NOT VISIBLE UNTIL YOU SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE VERY END/BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, (adjacent to “THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR” Poem on my side bar.  I do not know how long it has been like this, BUT, I ASSURE YOU I WILL CONTACT MY HOSTING COMPANY AT ONCE TO HAVE THIS CORRECTED!  I AM MOST DISAPPOINTED ABOUT THIS, HOWEVER, NOW THANKFULLY AWARE THAT VITAL INFORMATION IS UNFORTUNATELY BEING MISSED AS I HAD NO IDEA OF THIS PROBLEM.  IN THE MEANTIME PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO SEE THESE PAGES AND I AM SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE!!!

In addition, I would like to offer my sincere apologies AGAIN for what I am sure appears to be very unprofessional through out much of my website. There are many areas that require editing in the poems, articles, children’s stories sections and more on this site.  However, due to my hosting company’s policies, (hopefully in the process of change), I am unable to edit or add information to this site on my own without the risk of it crashing. The only way to do so at this time is to e-mail all of my edits, changes and new content information to the hosting company’s web maintenance team or designers.  They need to edit all old content as well as add all new content through their end.  This is due to a technical program change when they switched over to a different web design carrier (from their original html carrier, which is what I purchased this site under, to a new STML carrier, which will not work for me and all other clients who purchased under their original html carrier).  However, under the package I purchased for this site, I am only entitle to “one” hour a month of edit and add new content time combined.  After that one hour is expended, I have to pay extra for the company’s edit and/or new content time and this is quite costly. This inconvenience is presently out of my control and I am unfortunately at the mercy of losing my entire web site if I try to edit or add new content on my own.  As I have used up my one hour and more in November, I need to wait until the first of December to have my next article, the follow up to “SOME HELPFUL NEWS” entitled “ANCIENT CHINESE HERBS AND ACUPUNCTURE”, put on my site as well as have any additional editing done.  For this reason I have been referring all to where I have a link posted where you can view the new follow up article. The link is on my “Home” page, my “Contact Me” page as well as here now on my “Blog” page.

 www.michellewritesaboutbipolar.blogspot.com

Once again, I am sorry for the present inconveniences and for what may appear to be quite unprofessional on my behalf, but I assure you is not!  As of December first the follow-up article will be posted on this site and some additional edits in my poems section will be completed.  Again, this issue is out of my hands at the moment.

Thank you for understanding.

Sincerely,

~Michellewrites~

NOTE: I was told today, 12/7/09, be one of the sales & marketing reps. from my Hosting Co. that if I wanted to update my plan to a package for 4 more hours a month to be able to edit and add content to my site that it would now cost me another $899. This is because THEY switched carriers from an HTML (what I bought my web site package under) to an STML carrier. So, I ask all, should my package options change because they switched? Is it right that I have to pay all of this extra money just to be able to work with my site, add a new article or poem or even edit already existing material??? Today I informed the marketing agent of my contacts to Fox 5 News and Arnold Diaz about all of this and he showed no reaction, as a matter of fact, his answer was exactly this, “Okay.” 

So many are appalled at my story of my entire two year long battle with this unnamed company and the thousands of $’s I’ve spent OVER & EXCEEDING the cost of my original contracted package plan. I am at “their” (my Hosting Company’s) mercy as I am unable to get the required FTP files to transfer my site over to a different hosting company, or do anything else with it for that matter with out it costing me an exorbitant amount of money ONCE AGAIN!!! I don’t quite understand this as I was told I am the owner of my web site and it is all copy written in my name. I FEEL TRAPPED!!!  Finally, I remain hopeful that “justice” will arise as Fox 5 News and Arnold Diaz were also referred to this specific blog.

ONE MORE NOTE:

(The reason so much prior content/material requires editing is also another reflection of this Hosting Company …at the time the material was submitted, their “Word Press” editing system was down and not working correctly.  Just having to write this both disgusts and frustrates me, yet I will try to employ the message this site was intended for and to put forth regardless.  I WILL “find my rainbow” and make the BEST of my day!!!)

I would like to thank all visitors for your support.

~Michellewrites~

MICHELLEWRITES

~GUEST BOOK~

11/6/09:

From Janine:

This looks amazing. I can’t believe its finally done. Your strength and fortitude in the face of unyielding challenge is beyond words. You are the most determined and talented person I have ever known and I am so proud to be your sister. We wish you all the BEST life will bring you forever & ever!

Love Always,

Vincent, Janine, Vincent Jr & Robert xoxo

11/7/09

From Mom & Dad

you never sieze to amaze us.

All Our Love,

Mom & Dad

SIGN-INS:

Thursday, October 15, 2009
MY JOURNAL REVIEW

READ ABOUT MY VISIT TO LINCOLNTON GEORGIA AND THEIR LOCAL TOWN JOURNAL WRITE-UP ON ME:

Just click on the link below & scroll down to the 3rd box with the title below:

“New York author gets crash course in Southern hospitality”

Michelle Longo-Bloom, an author, lecturer, psychologist, and stay-athome mom, made a brief stop in Lincolnton on Monday, June 22, en route to a book signing in Charleston, South Carolina. Commenting on small town life, the New Yorker said, “The diameter of Lincolnton can be measured by the number… More…

click on link to continue

http://www.lincolnjournalonline.com/news/2009/0702/Front_Page/

Feel free to leave any comments on the actual article site or right here on

“Graced with the Colors of Life”

@ www.michellewrites.net

Be back soon.  Until then, BE “Graced with the Colors of Life” 

& BE WELL!!!

Best to all,

~Michellewrites~

I just wanted you to know that it was very helpful speaking with you.  You have so much insight–earned the hard way, of course!  Just keep plugging away, Michelle, uphill as it might seem.  There’s a reason for everything, and usually we can’t figure out what it is!

Caroline

Thank you for the beautiful website.  May God bless you in your travels.

THE BEST NEEDLE IN MY HAYSTACK

On plenty of occasions I find or hear myself complaining about the man who casually slipped something into my hand the night before crowds of people came to hear me speak at my first book signing. They came to hear what I had lived through for many years and the trials and tribulations that my book speaks about; about the events and the day to day happenings that life surprises us with.  The quote that this gentleman slipped me, it reads…

“Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so powerful as hope.  With hope, one can think, one can work, one can dream.  If you have hope, you have everything.”

The gentleman who casually slipped it to me, MY FATHER …

So, when I find myself in the throes of these complaints and then stop to think where I would be if not for my father, my perspective casually begins to slip its way back into my head… and then I think; I think:

• who tries with every last bit of energy he has to bring my spirits up when they are down, and keep them up          

• who is relentless about seeing my face with a smile
• who is my number 1 supporter whenever I need backing
• who is always there when I’m in need or in trouble
• who will do or give practically anything to make sure I’m happy

…and after I am through thinking I feel “hopeful.” With that hope, I can think more, I can work more and I can dream more.  It is then, and only then, that I know “I have everything because I have my father – THE BEST NEEDLE IN MY HAYSTACK!!!”

SOME QUOTES FOR A SPECIAL DRAGONFLY

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments

IN MEMORY OF JOHN GREG MYERS

 More of Something

By John Greg Myers

I gaze about the pale sky

In twilight,

The glistening sparkle of the river;

Oh, how it flows without troubles and anxieties…

But we all want more of something.

But never is a desire for pain.

Everyone wants more of anything:

More love,

Moer money,

More peace within…

But the river wants nothing more,

Than its freedom to flow.

No one knows us,

Who we really are inside

What we wish to gain,

To have endless boundaries

Of sanctity without regret,

And light within our darkened spaces.

In another world

Before anything had a soul

There was never a desire for more,

Life was as it was;

The long ages…

Before the Gods were created

Life existed and life perished

Without man and his endless needs;

And now we want more of anything.

The nature of man is inherent of this

As I ponder with my gaze;

The river flows on without greed.

He claimed we all wanted “more of something”, while HE wanted “more of nothing”, nothing other than what any human being should have on some, if not most, days to experience…days free of troubles and anxieties, like… “the glistening sparkle of the river… AND OH, HOW IT FLOWS.” “Never a desire for pain”, yet in the short time I knew him, never once did I hear him complain!

 John Gregory Myers, known as Greg by most, was a Military Veteran, a scholar by his own means, and a BRILLIANT writer.  He lived a complicated life marked by tumultuous battles of illness and “darkened spaces.”  In spite of this, Greg shared the greatest gifts imaginable with the public.  These are only a few of them:

• His introspective and reflective nature
  
• His ability to admit his faults and start again
  
• His utmost freedom and compassion in his words to others
  
• His overflowing generosity of kind words of praise and encouragement to fellow writers
  
• His well crafted and highly thought out constructive and time consuming criticism
  
• His gift of language in its most eloquent form
  
• His love of poetry as well as his respect for it
  
• His “forge-on and don’t give up” strength and attitude
  
• His lack of greed and complaint
  
• His truly genuine soul
  
• And finally, in my eyes, John’s most outstanding quality was his desire for never really wanting “more of something” other than PEACE in this world
                                                                                                                        

I would  like to leave you all with two messages that Greg recently wrote to me. These passages truly speak to the character of Mr. John Greg Myers:      

  1.   As I keep reading your poetry, I get more inspired to let my feelings    flow on  paper.  In my opinion, since I have read most of your work,   you are one of the most creative poets of this day and age

Keep writing…and God Speed

John Greg Myers

November 8, 2008 

 Live poetry, and you will celebrate life.  Write poetry, and you will celebrate your human ability to always love and cherish what you love. 

You are damn good, girl!

John Greg Myers

November 1 

...Greg’s thought provoking words and ideas were simply implausible. They showed a brilliance to his mind and spoke to his emotional sensitivity and character like that of very few talented and gifted individuals. To describe him as exceptional would be genuinely lacking …and, he certainly did have“More of Something!”  The irony here is that he thought I was the great writer/poet. 

Greg died one week shy of his 51^st birthday.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN GREGORY MYERS:

IN YOUR ETERNAL LIFE YOU ARE

“THE GLISTENING SPARKLE OF THE RIVER”

“WANTING NOTHING MORE.” 

MAY YOU BE

“FREE TO FLOW”

AND FEEL NO MORE

“DARKENED SPACES” 

AND MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE

“MORE OF EVERYTHING!” 

MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

With the Greatest Respect,

Michelle Longo-Bloom