My First Post: Weeding Your Friendship Garden

My name is Jacqueline Foreman and I am just an ordinary girl from New Jersey who happens to lead an extraordinary life. I am blessed with three wonderful children who are 13, 16 and 20 and even though my marriage is not the best right now I have faith that it will either come back together...or end on friendly terms. You can't be with someone for 20+ years and hate them can you? In my case the answer is no. Even if the marriage ends, I will always care for him. He is a good man and the things that we have had to endure have pulled us apart...it happens.

So why is my life extraordinary? The first reason is that I have some of the most incredible friends a person could ever hope to have. Most of them are musicians like Tyka Nelson (my other half LOL), Kevin McGee, Valencia Bey and others like my great friend Paolo Seganti who is a great actor and author who now portrays Damien Grimaldi on As The World Turns and Clarence Stevens from Blues Web Radio in Gary, IN. I have other friends who are not famous...but to me they are like Dina Aweida Everling, Marilyn Rivera, Sheryl Abdelazim (who is also my big sister), Tony Johnson, Jr., Reese P., Bo Hurdle, Michael Carbone, Michael Dean, Kathleen Campbell, Alison Ray, Kathy Anderson, Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Susie M., Cliff and so many others I can not list them all. These are my true friends; the ones that have my back even when they don't need anything from me. They call me just to say hello or email or text me a line or two at least weekly if not more.

I am a published and successful romance and freelance author, a genealogist, a paranormal seeker and investigator, a publicist to five awesome clients (can not take any more!!) and I host my own radio show where I have interviewed some of the most amazing people on the planet!

After the death of my son in January 2000, life looked pretty bleak and when my husband and I separated in 2004 even bleaker. I thought I would never laugh again; that God had turned his back on me...that I had done something terribly wrong. But now, I know that all things happen for a reason. Someone (u know who u r) very smart told me some people are in your life for a reason, some for a season and others for a lifetime. I am weeding my garden, pulling out the "bad" friends by the roots and spending time with the real ones who love me just because...who laugh at my stupid jokes and who really get me and care for me. Life is too short and with lupus, mine may be shorter than I had anticipated. But, I feel great,and thanks to Tyka I feel beautiful again; and I am just ready to live life to the fullest until the day they unplug me LOL!

Airing a music show tonight in tribute to Andy Gibb at 9 PM ET, next Tuesday I am being joined live for the hour by Ingrid Chavez to discuss her new CD A Flutter And Some Words and to play the first single from herCD which drops on October 6th and I will be interviewing Demond Wilson on Friday September 11th at 8 PM ET...he was LaMont Sanford from Sanford & Son...F-U-N people. So join me at www.blogtalkradio.com/yourmentalhealth talk radio for your mind, body, spirit and soul and join my blog and see how a regular girl from Jersey is making the most of her life each day even when she feels rotten sometimes! Stay Blessed! Jackie Foreman