Hi: How is everybody out there today? Here in Bakersfield we are looking at some sweltering heat for the next week or so. But this is pretty much the norm for our neck of the woods. My daughter tells me it is 110 to 114 in Phoenix, Arizona. She thought the heat would be the same as here, but I told her no that they have a very dry heat, where as here it is more humid. Oh well, so much for weather.

It is strange that all your working life, you think how great retirment will be. Well in a way it is great not having to get up early and dress for work and not having to face the horrific traffic, but at first I kind of missed my old friends at work and the socializing that goes along with working. Well I have taken up socialing on-line with people of my profession -- Medical transcribers both actively working and retired. This kept my interest for awhile and still does. Anyway I have been thinking for a long time about writing a book -- now what subject do I know the best? Well that was not hard to answer -- my own family and my life. Of course how hard could that be!!! So I have just recently started writing. Well it was not as easy either as I first expected. How do you start, what do you want to include, will your family be offended by what you say, if you are completely honest? These are questions which haunted me. I was wondering how other writers deal with these issues. I would really appreciate hearing someone else's point of view on this.

Is anyone presently writing their memoirs or have they in the past? I know lots of celebrities do this and some tell everything, no matter what. But you know, I look on them as a different breed of people, not at all like you and me. They seem to thrive on attention and lots of it. I think that I am not at all like that. I am sure if I tell all in my life story, somebody is going to get hurt. I just talked to my mother the other day who is still alive by the way. She said go ahead and say whatever you want to -- of course she does have Alzheimer's disease. Now my father has been gone (deceased) for a long time. Well maybe I am just worrying too much about this. It is really hard to know what is right and what is wrong.