First time blogger alert

FIRST TIME BLOGGER ALERT

As I have never blogged before, I asked my Gen X kids for HHEELLPP!!!!!

To my daughter, “So what’s a blog exactly Aimee?”

She immediately and rightly so took on the pitying expression of trying to explain something to a lesser techno being. {Okay so I’m not on facebook, “twitter” is what birds do and my phone which is never on can’t even take photos and that’s the way I like it. I have a website, surely that’s a plus; www.jenniferAnn.info}

“Mum you need hu….mour” she drawled as though this was a new word for me. I am not entirely humourless. Living as a SIM Australia missionary for 7 years in West Africa and people complimenting me on my “fatness”. I did try to see the funny side.

She continued with the lesson, “Your meant to have personality” To which we both said “Oh”. As secretly desiring the life of a hermit living in a cave high up on a peaceful mountain with babbling brook probably doesn’t get me personality points.

“and Mum, this is NOT a nursing lecture” and yes, I am a registered nurse who now teaches nursing at tafe and it is true not everyone wants to talk about their health problems, something I do need to remember.

Having started on this “learning curve of blogging” I went to my son for further insight.

“Hey Josh, I’m going to blog, do you have any advice for me?”

Again with that same quizzical, wow this will be a stretch for Mum look. Out of pity, {I think}, he just gave me one thing to work on.

“It’s meant to be interactive you ask questions like “What did you think of my book?”

“What if they haven’t read my book?” I countered. We both agreed that could be a big possibility. So here goes an {interactive} attempt at describing my book.

“Broken Pottery - the life of an African girl”

The book is a fiction “why? I hear you ask” because I wanted to make it a great read with romance, danger, conflict, spiritual hunger etc.

It is set in Africa a most wonderful and exotic continent of whom I have the deepest respect for its people. Have you traveled to Africa?

The girl on the cover is young and vulnerable and this tends to be the type of person who can be struck with obstetric fistula a condition that develops from a complicated birth. Often these girls are treated as outcasts and as those who have been cursed.

Will the girl from this story find physical and emotional healing? Does God care for her? Are we in the West able to help these women?

You’ll have to read the book and find out. Let me know what you think of it.

I am blogging again on the 1^st Oct, where gen X will critique my blog and I’ll tackle what I’ve learned about writing and motivation.

Bye for now. Jennifer Ann.