I have been participating in an active, supportive, magazine based, forum for quite a while now and I was really excited to see that Guideposts would have one, because I love the magazine and my Daily Guidepost, and often feel that guideposts is a community already. In fact Guideposts is as much a part of my spiritual practice as my church is. At backpacker.com, where I also post as echo, I can't put up a post without getting replies and lots of people reading it. Here, I feel like a lonely echo with only a few other voices, yet I don't want to give up. So who else is here? let me introduce myself a bit and see if anyone else will.

I am a Mom, a wife, a writer and a teacher. More, I'm a mom to two High School boys, only a year apart, one adopted, one biological, both REALLY Mine! I am a wife who married young, luckily to the right man and so had our 25th anniversary this year. I write magazine articles and kids picture books and a middle grade fantasy book, but don't do much about trying to publish yet. I paint and sketch and take non stop Photographs. I write long letters and lots of facebook and forum entries. I taught severely handicapped kids for 10 years and now have substituted for 10 years. I live in the Pacific Redwoods and love to hang out at the river, but I grew up by Yellowstone and my Dad's family hails from Pittsburgh.

SO???

Hello. HELLO!! Anyone out there?