Writing and publishing a book has been quite an adventure, not to mention quite the learning experience. But, I did it. I plan to share details of that journey in my book’s sequel (title pending) which I am in the process of writing (roughly 50K words pounded out on my keyboard, thus far). Throughout this process, I have had this underlying fear that my stories wouldn’t be believed. I don’t know why, but I worried that readers would think I’d made it all up, that there’s no way such things really happened, in one person’s life. Probably just my inner mean girl talking again. That b—h needs to shut up! I promise you, my book is 100% nonfiction.
My niece, Brandy, recently finished reading my book Itchy Nipples and Anxiety: My Life is a Comedy of Perils and posted a lovely review of it on Goodreads! During an online chat, Brandy said the only thing she would change about the book would be to add pictures of my adventures. I had actually considered doing that as I was writing my book, but the daunting task of sorting through my 1,000’s (nay 100’s of 1,000’s) of pictures overwhelmed me so much I let go of the idea.
It got me thinking, though — visual proof would be fun to share. I mean, I have been quite the shutter-bug since I was a little girl, when Dad handed me his old Brownie camera.
So, I decided I’d share photos via this blog! I’ll be going through my book, marking pages where a photo would be appropriate or meaningful, and I’ll hunt for said photos and post them here, on this blog post.
If you’ve read, or are in the process of reading my book, I hope these photos will enhance your experience. Thank you for reading!
Keep checking back for newly added photographs, listed by chapter (this may take a while).
Here goes…!
CHAPTER 1





















I have both pieces in my home now.
CHAPTER 5




CHAPTER 6 (No photos)
CHAPTER 7 (No photos)
CHAPTER 8







CHAPTER 9 (No photos)
CHAPTER 10
First trip to NYC 2012


Second trip to NYC 2018


Europe Trip 2019


























…to be continued as I find more!