Writing Reality

      "... From the run on Saturday, September 1 st 2007....I come down into a valley.   The sun begins to rise.   It is now close to six o’clock as I approach the flattest section of the valley.   Looking right to the east, there is a calm lake with a mountain silhouetted by the sunrise.   There is swan on the moonlit side, floating on the water.   I’m aghast.   I stop my watch, standing still, I look around at both sides.   Seeing the mirror images of the sun to the moon, with some exceptions, they hang in the sky at the same level.   And my thoughts adrift, as I want to stand for just a little bit longer in the view.     I wonder, ‘ if the moon is still available or has she gone, never to be seen again in quite the same way.    I look to my left as I continue my run, and in the west is a mirror image of the east with one exception, the sky.       It’s as though the sky ...

Chapter Twenty-Two The Glove of Heaven …As I approached the well-lit dam, more joy, and fascination ensued.   It was about five o’clock in the morning or close to that time.   The night sky appeared to encompass me like a glove of heaven.   It’s cool, crisp air embracing me so deep, I could feel it in through my eyes and in my blood.       I had heard deer leaping in the wooded areas surrounding the path I took.   Yet, I did not see one.   It was as if they were running beside me.   I actually have had a deer run with me as I ran, once.   It was miraculous:   Leaping deer…     It was early one morning.   This buck with a full rack, ran side by side not more than twenty feet from me, leaping over fences as if to keep up with me.   My friend, Brian McCourt, was running to my left and the buck was running in sync with us to Brian’s left.    This was for a good hundred yard...

     Comes to mind "On the Run", What is it inside me that pursues to right the wrong, to save, to love, to rescue, to comfort, to give hope, to hold together for others.   Is this from my Soul, my Creator?   Or is this ego driven?   I quite often feel mighty sure, and on track when I pursue a good idea or peace. When I pursue justice, there are so many feelings, and questions.   I become overly scrutinizing even, and especially with myself in the pursuit of trying to right a wrong.   There are times I despise myself for caring so much, because, it is tiring and tumultuous.   Yet I feel it would be dishonorable to not pursue justice when wronged or when others are wronged. Tom’s friend:     As the trial approached in early 1993 for the case of my abduction, sexual assault, and a host of other charges filed against my attacker, concerning the crime committed against me of August 1 st 1991.   Tom Fleming, my lo...

First Run of New Jersey For Charity 212 miles in 55 hours and 49 minutes. Raised $20,000. Chapter Eight You Can’t Run Through…     I was told a girl will never beat a guy in running, especially a girl like me with no talent.   Thusly, I won three races outright over the men and women later in life, in my early forties. A Fifty Miler in Detroit, on a mix of cross-country terrain in a wicked storm that produced tornados in the Midwest in November of 2002.       I won outright over men and women in a six hour trot till you drop trail terrain run in May of 2003.   I then won as a first time Mom. I won outright over men and women in a Twelve Hour Trot Till You Drop run in 2004.     I set the Twenty-four Hour Women’s Treadmill Record in 2005 at age forty-two, six months, two weeks and ten days old, for North America. At the time I was ranked second in the world until 2017 for that distance and timed type of a run, no...

.....Later, it was to endure healing, working, attempting to stay fit, and getting ready for trial, that I would soon testify in. The exhaustion of physical pain, let alone not knowing exactly the outcome of the trial, nor my health, nor much of my future was all encompassing and exhausting, as I fought off flashbacks, sleepless nights at times too.     The aftermath; as the dust settled from the medical treatments which would carry on past a decade beyond the trial and conviction of my attacker, was beyond exhausting.   As well as trying to build another career so I could work and not be in so much pain. All encompassing, all exhausting. More disruptions which would keep me in a near constant state of exhaustion, I decided were normal.   To get myself into a very physically fit arena, I decided to run as far as I could. Even after I became a mother, exhaustion was my mainstay and I would fight it to survive another angered, anxious day, in hope that the exh...

Introduction     “Anger Love, Rage Peace”, begins twenty-six after “No Fury Like a Woman” leaves off. Where the main character Jackqueline “Jackie” Bloodworth is now seen in her early sixties. “Anger Love, Rage Peace” shows what has transpired not only in her life in the years since the assault on her, yet also what has transpired in many of the other characters of the past three novels, from “How To Ruin a Pearl”, to “The Pink Room” as well as from, “No Fury Like a Woman”.     This novel is partly to demonstrate how a victim of sexual assault may cope, as well as others coping with their losses in an act of terrorism experienced on American soil. Some as they recognize their past of unknowingly having been the victim, thus may demonstrate their life choices, of the past.     Vindication, would also be another description for this novel, as many of the characters from the other three novels show a sign of hope in humanity. Not alway...

This is the continuation of the Third Novel, "No Fury Like a Woman", which stems from the novels "The Pink Room" and "How To Ruin a Pearl". It takes place primarily from the September 11th 2001 attacks in New York City, the Pentagon and the tragic crash in Pennsylvania of Flight 93 through December 31, 2018.  There are pivotal flashes back from the early to mid 1990's to give the reader a sense of time and how other lives around the main character Jackqueline "Jackie" Bloodworth ended up. https://www.amazon.com/dp/109555686X