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My Name is Monna Ellithorpe:

I am a 55-year-old widow, mother to 1 daughter and “nanna” to 2 grandchildren, living in SW Florida.

I worked for General Electric Company for 15 years and thought I would be there for life until time to retire.  Well as we all know, nothing is forever.  GE downsized their facilities and I was laid off.  I’ve spent the last 18 years working from home doing medical transcription.

Since becoming a widow in August of 2008, I have fought with grief, loss of concentration, major depression, anxiety and total financial loss.  I have come very close (too close) to becoming homeless.   I tell you these things, not to make anyone feel sorry for me but to share some of my life with you so that you can see that you can recover from almost anything if you have the will to do it and plenty of good friends and family to help.

I have been through many things in my life good and bad.   Some  people may have gone through much worse than I have and maybe I have gone through much worse things than others have.

My point is that we all need someone to lean on, learn from, talk to, confide in and trust in whether it is about something personal, starting a new business or just needing a friend.

My wish is to be there as a voice of motivation, inspiration and hope if you are going through some hard times.

Within this blog, I intend to step out of the normal for me and for most blogs.  My blog will have a little bit of:

Comedy – Sadness – Humor – Sarcasm – Anger – Love – Advice – Devotion – Respect – Reviews – Music – Books – Videos – Interesting Stories – Pictures, Scrapbooking and quilting stuff  (as those are my hobbies) I dearly want to become involved with again.

I’m calling this my “NEW LIFE JOURNEY” and I would like to invite you along.  

Start a “New Life Journey” of your own with me.  You don’t have to “accomplish this alone”.  “People Helping People” is the “key” which will benefit both you and I.

Monna Ellithorpe