Author
Mindy M Reed
Oy! Own Yourself
After I’d come from yet another frustrating internet date, I was telling my sister Susan about it and I got on a roll. “Getting on a roll” is normal for me. One thing always leads to another and we seem to be able to laugh about the strangest things. People tell me I have a great sense of humor. I suppose I do. When strange things happen to me, I can usually turn it around later and see the funny side of things.
Not really knowing much about my dating history, I started telling Susan about some of my good, bad and ugly dates and a few of them made her laugh so hard, she was doubled over. She was so entertained that she suggested I write a book about it all. I honestly didn’t think anyone would be very interested, and said as much. But she told me she thought people would love to read about these stories and laugh about them too. I shrugged it off, but in the back of my mind I couldn’t really let it go.
After many years of doing the internet dating thing and dating in general as a middle-aged woman with three failed marriages, I had learned so much from these experiences. It gave me a thorough understanding of what I was really searching for and what I needed to do to heal and learn more about myself.
Eventually, I grew so much personally I decided I should write about it all and maybe give a few people something to laugh about, coupled with a little advice on what not to do in the dating game. A sort-of, “Do as I say not as I do” journal. I had made so many mistakes in the process, but, thank goodness, was also learning from those mistakes.
If possible, I wanted to help save other people from the heartache and the emotional pain that I had endured during my search for the perfect man, and the book I had planned was supposed to just be about those horrible dates. But then, it evolved into a book about me, my struggles, my strengths and weaknesses, and the fact that I am still on this earth, despite the times when I just wanted to lie down and never get up again.
I hope this book entertains and enlightens you as it was intended.
Peace, Love and Light my friends, Namaste’
by Deirdre Moignard Miller, RMT
This is a robust and brawny book that speaks from the soul with great potential to help others transform themselves into growing and learning through relationship experimentation. It is a bird’s eye view into the life of one woman and her travails throughout the internet dating scene. We learn about the pitfalls and gain a good understanding of how people, men in particular, think and relate to each other; how seriously they do/do not take others’ feelings into consideration.
Mindy takes us through some hilarious situations that truly could have become disastrous had she not had the presence of mind to understand it as it presented itself honestly, and the intuition to know when to exit at the right time. She shows courage, determination and grows exponentially throughout. Her ability to discern her true self and how she is feeling moment-by-moment is a priceless gift and should be shared; so she does, and in a way that is sometimes outrageous yet somehow totally appropriate.
Eventually, the reader comes away wanting more because it is so hilarious in spots, yet this book offers intelligent insights, for all ages, into what not to do when dating, and it leaves one with a clear idea of how to avoid the pitfalls before they are truly evident.
This book is filled with many personal anecdotes, it is easy to read, it is both spicy and sentimental and I highly recommend it.
You will be left spell-bound and wanting more.
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