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June is National Migraine & Headache Awareness Month.   It's only since being diagnosed with migraines have I started understanding how vast and severely debilitating a disease it is. Migraine is a disabling disease that affects 37 million people in the United States. If you know someone with migraines, be it a love one or a friend, co worker or even just an acquaintance, get to how the migraine is affecting them, and not just assume. Take 15 minutes to watch the video below to get a better understanding of what is a migraine.   For more info, you can get more information from the following organizations: American Headache Society American Migraine Foundation Migraine.com Migraine Research Foundation Readers here will know my sporadic schedule has been ongoing for the past year since I was first diagnosed with migraines. About several months ago, it has progressed and officially diagnosed as chronic migraines. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a goo...

Title:   Hold On Tight Series: The Bridgeport Social Club, Book 3 Author: Shelley Shepard Gray Publisher:    Black Stone Publishing Release Date: June 11, 2019 Genre:  Contemporary Romance Links*:  Amazon  l  Goodreads  l  Book Depository   Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to cancer when the town's coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, with a three-year-old daughter to care for and a broken heart to mend, he moved across the country to find a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Now he tends bar by night and tries to navigate life as a single dad by day. Luckily, his neighbor is happy to babysit while he works late nights. She's great with little Kate, beautiful, kind ... and lately he's found himself smiling whenever he thinks about her. Dani Brown also knows what it's like to lose a spouse and raise a child on her own. Cleaning houses during the day, and taking online classes at n...

ABOUT  The Number of Love Title:   The Number of Love Series: Codebreakers, Book 1 Author:  Roseanna M. White Publisher:  Bethany House  Release Date:   June 4, 2019 Genre:  Historical Romance Links*:  Amazon  l  Goodreads  l  Book Depository  l  CBD    l  Itunes The Toughest Puzzle She'll Have to Solve Might Be the Wishes of Her Own Heart Three years into the Great War, England’s greatest asset is their intelligence network—field agents risking their lives to gather information, and codebreakers able to crack every German telegram. Margot De Wilde thrives in the environment of the secretive Room 40, where she spends her days deciphering intercepted messages. But when her world is turned upside down by an unexpected loss, for the first time in her life numbers aren’t enough. Drake Elton returns wounded from t...

Art in SoHo in the 1980s by Laura Tucker  Olympia, the main character of my novel All the Greys on Greene Street , is an artist. Sometimes her art is a delight, and sometimes it’s a source of frustration, but it is a constant companion—it is how she sees the world. That’s one the reasons I set the book in the SoHo neighborhood of New York in the early 1980s. It was one of the most exciting creative hubs of the twentieth century. When artists first started moving into SoHo in the 1960s, it was an abandoned warehouse district known by firefighters as Hell’s Hundred Acres. It was dirty and dangerous and desolate, especially at night, when the trucks left and the factory workers went home. But it was cheap, and enormous windows flooded the industrial spaces with natural light. The lofts were vast—Olympia learns to ride a bike in her family’s loft—so artists could work on huge canvases and enormous sculptures, and collaborate with dancers and musicians. The...