"Where Love Mingles With Destiny"
PF KARLIN never gave much thought to writing a novel, least of all romance. She started her writing journey in her later years. Her books are written for adults of all ages, and they focus on relationships with interesting twists. PF Karlin invites you to come along on your own romantic journey with characters that soon discover their world is, “Where love Mingles with Destiny.”
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May 19, 2019
WELCOME TO THE PF KARLIN WEBSITE: If anyone ever tells you setting up a website is easy, don’t believe them. I find it difficult as heck. This is the second website I’ve set up. The first one had about twenty-six pages and took hours. No, that was months. About six to be exact.
Maybe it’s just that I’m a perfectionist when it comes to the artwork. For this site, I use my photographs. I had to spend hours on manipulating them to add the tag lines, resize, fill in colors, and think of stuff to write. To top it off, I’m not even sure I spelled everything right. I’m a terrible speller. Yeah, I know. I’m a writer and should be able to spell. No one’s perfect and we all have a weakness. Spelling is mine.
The other part is learning the theme. I use WordPress and each theme follows different rules. Since I’m using a theme I’ve never used before, I have to learn it. And I have to be in the mood to do that. So, on this hot, humid, Texas Sunday I was in the mood because sitting in air-conditioned comfort is far better than being outside working on rebuilding my deck.
Today, I figured out how to write a blog. Just an FYI, don’t hold your breath on tons of blogs. I need to be in the mood for that as well.
The next thing I learned, how to change the contact page. There are social media icons at the bottom of that page. I linked them, which then spurred me on to change my Tweeter banner. That took more of my time because I didn’t like the way the works were centered on the page. Converting a usable picture from a publisher version to a JPG takes multiple steps and one picture can take up to six or seven hours for me to do.
In conclusion, if you ever decide to build your own website look at all your options. I understand there are page building sites which are fairly user-friendly and might be easier to figure out. Good luck with your site and I hope it’s easier for you. This site is still a work in progress, but it has all the components I want and need. Now, if I can only remember how to change out the pictures.
March 16, 2020
SOME SENSILBLE ACTIONS TO FOLLOW WHEN DEALING WITH
THE COVID-19 VIRUS
The following points are based on years of medical education and common sense. People settle down, life will return. Please, don’t panic. Enjoy being with your family and use common sense.
I don’t know how old some of you are, but look up the H1N1 pandemic of 2009. You’ll be shocked. 56,000,000, that’s million people were infected in the US alone. There was no vaccine or anti-viral meds for H1N1 either until the next year. During this pandemic, there was no panic or hoarding. There was no isolation. Sadly, the death tolls were high as with the yearly flu.
Today we have around 3700 cases of the Covid-19 in the US. Will the numbers go higher? Most likely, yes they will. However, remember, if you test positive, it doesn’t mean you’re going to die., it doesn’t mean you’ll be on a respirator, It doesn’t mean you’ll end up in an ICU. For most, you’ll be asked to isolate at home until you recover.
What’s important, if you have symptoms, isolate. If the symptoms show any signs of intensifying, seek medical help. If you’re in an ER or Urgent care and someone suffering a heart attack comes in, but your stable, meaning you can breathe, the heart attack will be treated first. The heart attack is life-threatening and at a higher risk of death. So, stay calm. You will get your turn.
Just be sensible and reasonable with your decision and by all means, wash your hands. Hand sanitizers are fine when water is not available, but liquid soap, water, and a good scrubbing between fingers and fingernails will do more than anything less.
Also, unless you have other people coming into your home, to include your family, continual cleaning of your house is not necessary. Cleaning door knobs, door jams, refrigerator handles, faucet handles, toilets, in short, any place hands touch frequently need to be wiped down, but not daily, Unless you have touched everything in your house as soon as you come in from being out. Don’t forget your car steering wheel and door handles. Those might need a daily wipe down if you’re out daily. One important thing to remember, do not dry any surface you have cleaned with a recommended disinfectant. It must air dry to be effective. Again, be sensible.
If you work outside the home, use sanitizer before entering. Once you’re in the house, don’t hug or come near anyone. Go straight to your bathroom, take off the outer layer of your clothes, wash your hands and face, and then put on new clothes. You can go one step further and shower to include washing your hair before redressing. By the way, doing this will also decrease the effects of the pollen flying around right now. Oh yeah, get the kids to sanitize before entering your home and have them wash once inside. They may not be as susceptible, but they could carry it on their hands and face.
In case anyone is interested, I am a health care professional and have long practice following the removal of my scrubs then showering, followed by a clothing change before I interacted with my family because I never knew what was lurking on my scrubs. Common sense!
Stay safe, enjoy the time off, and remain sensible.
Karen Pugh, writing as PF Karlin, is a Yankee hailing from Chicago, Illinois, where she attended college and received a degree in Nursing. With her degree in hand she embarked on a forty-five year career as a Registered Nurse. After having her fill of cold weather she packed up, left the Chicago winters behind, and moved to Texas where she currently lives with her wonderfully, romantic husband. Karen spends as much time as she can with her family and enjoys writing romance as an internationally published author with characters whose lives are guided by destiny.
SHATTERED FATE
“If life is to perfect is it real?”
I’m Belinda Davies. I grew up afraid of my own shadow and spent most of my adolescence by myself, until I met my bestie and college roommate, Abby. She pushed me to stretch my horizons. I was a late bloomer and after my looks changed, guys started to notice. I had no idea what to expect, but I had always dreamt of falling in love.
That’s where Robert Pennington came in. In college, he had earned the reputation of being the campus player because of his good looks and charm, but he was far from what everyone assumed. He was just really a nice guy and people pleaser, but it didn’t help our romance that he was also a chick magnet.
When an accident tore us apart, I was left to search for Robert in my New Reality. Could I find him? Would he remember me? And would we be in love?
DESTINY REBORN
Belinda accepts an invitation to a New Year’s Eve party where she meets a breathing, flesh and blood version of Robert. However, he doesn’t want anything to do with her. Belinda’s only alternative is to go on planning and living her life as if they never met, but fate steps in and keeps intertwining their lives. They muddle through their chance meetings and even manage to turn their encounters into a genuine friendship, until he reveals his secret that changes their destinies forever.
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