Lynda Kaye Frazier, USA Today Best Selling Author

This is my Birthday weekend, yes I said weekend. In my house when your birthday falls on a Friday you get to celebrate for three days.  : )  And this year mine does.  It's today!                  So Let's get this party started This year I'm not asking for gifts, I'm giving them. I had my first novel released in February and since it has been a good year I'm going to give one lucky person a copy, but thats not all. I'm going to give away some swag.  : ) a basket filled with goodies to another lucky person. All you have to do is sign up to follow my blog and leave a comment below. Don't forget to leave your e-mail address so  can notify the lucky winners. I will randomly choose the winners Sunday evening. Blurb: She has no memory of their love... Kidnapped by terrorists and sent into a drug-induced coma, FBI intern Mercedes Kingsley awakes with no memory of her ordeal-or the intimate interlude that left her pregnant. Convinced her child

                                                                                              Mental shut down When you have MS your mental capacity is limited on some days. Weather it be from medication or the effect of the disease on the brain itself you just feel like your brain shuts down. This is also what writers call a mental block. Finishing up a simple scene seems impossible. You get to a point in your writing where the flow stops, your brain shuts down and you just sit there and stare at the blank screan in front of you, waiting. With MS, and writers, the solution is about the same. Don't push past your ability at that time. Move to a different task, something simple. My sister's Doctor told her to go to a mindless activity, rest your brain. I've been overwhelmed lately with everything going on in our life that my brain went into shutdown and have not been able to write anything on the stories I have been working on. I overheard my sister talking to

MS Monday was a little late this week because of a balance issue. So this will be MS awareness on how to balance on your feet and in your life. Our world is a balancing act. Some of us are great at it and some just wing it as things happen. But we all agree that the smallest thing can throw us off. When you have MS it really doesn't take much to throw you off kilter. Just a muscle spasm can send your whole day crashing down around you. My sister is struggling with her balance right now and we decided to think ahead. Be ready for anything that life can throw at her. She owns a couple of canes, and depends on them for support. We purchased a walker for days when a cane just won't work, but there are days in between the two. Ones where a cane is not enough, yet a walker is too much so we went to an orthopedic store and went shopping. I know, women do love to shop but this was not the store either one of us planned on ever having to venture into. We tried on

Multiple Sclerosis has changed more than just my sisters life, it has altered mine also. She was diagnosed in 2006 and I never realized the impact it made on her everyday life until about a year ago. She went into a crisis and ended up in the hospital. Once she was released from the hospital she was left with some devastating changes that ended her ability to be independent. She had to depend on her husband for simple tasks at first. Carrying laundry downstairs, cleaning the shower and simple household chores that she was not able to do anymore. Over time her ability to get up the stairs without assistance ended, but the real turning point for her was when she was not able to open a jar of peanut butter. Her hand would not grip anymore and she threw the jar across the room. Yah, that's just how she felt, and so did I. We take the simplest things for granted until that ability is taken from us. I felt helpless and she did also. With all the changes she was going through,

When I wrote my first book I had a lot of free time. It was winter. My children were busy with their lives and I had many quiet evenings to write. It was a writers dream. full time job by day and full time writer at night, then it all changed. Spring arrived, Children came home on vacations and grandchildren decided Grandma's house was a great place to be on the weekends. I soon realized that I needed to get creative with my writing time because it was getting to a point where there were days I had no time to write,  and I had stories in my head begging to get out. At 2 am, during a writing sprint, I came up with an idea. I worked out a schedule where everything fits, maybe not as many hours in it for writing but family always comes first in this house.  : ) All I did was move my social media time to 5:30 am to 6:30 am My day job takes up my 7:45 to 5:00 pm I fit an hour writing into my lunch time. This has saved money because I now take my lunch.  :) Then in the