Moving forward. The book In Between My Tears is moving forward. I received an email yesterday from a woman that's an volunteer at Vista Maria. I was so happy and surprised by this email I wasn't expecting it and didn't know the woman. She was writing to request the book, In Between My Tears as a possible book for the girls at Vista Maria for the group that have formed with the girls "Vista Maria Reads". I love it! I know while I was there I spent hours reading. The girls would tease me about all ways holding onto a book. It was the words and life experiences that helped me moved forward with my life. I thought if they could do it then I could do it. I can make my life worth living. I was so thrilled when she mentioned in her email that they would like to consider using my book for the girls to read. When she said that that my book was recommend to her as a book that would be of inspiration for the girls. I was so happy I was seeing my dream come true my goal of inspiring young woman maybe coming true. I thought of the day the nurse at work had come to me about a young lady that she had given the book to tell her that she had never read a complete book before but she couldn't put my book down. She said she loved it and had read it over again. I wrote a book that a was the first for someone and she couldn't put it down. All I could think of were the books that I had held onto not able to put it down because it had me gripped I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Hearing the nurse tell me that was music to my ears. Now reading that someone had recommended my book and that she would like to use it at Vista Maria the place that the book is really all about.

This is the dream that I had dreamed for over 30 years. When I left Vista Maria I had dreamed that I would write about that time there. It wasn't easy living there I didn't understand why I was there. I thought I was being punished for just being me, Kim Kelsey. The young ladies that I spent those days, hours, minutes and weeks helped me to be the young woman I thought I could be. They cheered me on, they cried with me, they laughed with me and they encouraged me. I wanted to tell that story. I felt loved for the very first time while I was there and I wanted to share with others that experience. When I walked out that gate and looked back I knew then that I was going to write my book.

It took over forty years to make that dream come true. It took years of writing and throwing it away. Writing and throwing it away until I was told that I could do this that I could make my dream come true. The day Marilyn my writer coach said to me " Kim you are a wonderful writer." When she told me that I was ready to write the book. Those six months working with her was a joy the words came out like a water fountain I could see each experience as if I was there again. I saw the girls that were my family and I wrote it as if we were laughing, talking and sharing our thoughts all over again. I wanted to help someone else that was confused just as I was. I wrote my story to inspire someone else.

Reading those words in that email was like receiving a birthday gift that I always wanted. I'm so looking forward to hearing her thoughts about my book. In Between My Tears is moving forward.