Raine Balkera - Romance Author

16Personalities.com My son is currently teaching at a Language Camp on a Minnesota lake and has to figure out how his students will behave/respond over the next few weeks. He sent me and his sister the link to a Personality Test and surprisingly, my daughter and I are more alike than either of us ever realized or care to admit. Not surprising at all, my son is the complete opposite. When I took the test, I went into it like I do all of the others . . . with a semi-lackadaisical attitude and a surefire hunch the results wouldn't perfectly match me and who I really am (or, more to the point, who I perceive myself to be). From the picture above, the answers resulted in my being termed a Mediator, and I'm sorry, this just couldn't be more wrong. The "I like to mediate and make sure everyone is happy" part. That is my son and somewhat my daughter, AND me until I was in my thirties, but definitely not who I am today. The rest of the explanations, th...

On FRIDAY, I went for an in-office Gynecological procedure. I was trembling on the inside and too afraid to even be the typical chatterbox that I embarrassingly become in public. Scalpels, needles, medical jargon, and even the word 'procedure' are not to my liking. The Bartholins cyst runs like a clear syrup, which is good according to the Doc, and she is amazed not only by how much fluid is drained but how long I've lived with the malady -- but to spend even a second of her time explaining my financial woes and the fact that I'd been without medical insurance for more than a decade seems pointless, so I remain silent. I CAN (almost) SIT AND WALK LIKE A NORMAL PERSON AGAIN! SATURDAY was WIP day, and I'm still pleased with the way this story is working itself out. The ideas keep coming, I'm still on-track with the outline/plot thing (believe it or not), and I still think I've got a slight grip on the show versus tell issue, too. Word C...