There really ought 2b more photos on this page, but b4 eye had a chance 2 put them up ~ my heart got broken...
Even b4 this happened, I was more on the go and a little bit more into working on me, instead of web pages ~ dancing and singing and trying to get back into "dancer's shape" once again...  Regardless, I'm still working on a really big change... Prayers 4 strength and inspiration 2 accomplish this goal are greatly appreciated.

Just an added little note on broken hearts
Prince, in one of the songs off his new CD, Planet Earth, sings:
A BROKEN HEART WILL MEND
IF U LOVE IT LIKE UR BEST FRIEND
And I didn't get it, didn't understand how a broken heart could be my friend,
nor did I understand how my loving it would bring it back to health

And then, in a book about the life of Padre Pio, in one of his letters to his spiritual children, his
advice gave me an understanding of what Prince might have meant. In Psalm 34 it is written:
THE LORD IS CLOSE TO THE BROKENHEARTED,
SAVES THOSE WHOSE SPIRIT IS CRUSHED.
A broken heart is my friend, because like a good friend, it is here helping me get what I want
and need, and I ought to love it, because it is the very thing that has drawn God nearer to me.
And that He is the one who will mend it, and do much more than that...

And this same letter of Padre Pio's also seemed to answer my wish that he was still alive and able to offer me advice on something that I'm wanting very much; praying for, working hard to get, and yes, even scheming to make happen. I believe that God heard my wish and led me to read the answer that Padre Pio would have given had I been able to visit him at San Giovanni Rotondo. Below is the excerpt that gives me a ray of hope amidst so much sorrow: