Candlelight Memoirs True Stories

It had been a dream of mine for a number of years to launch my own website. Thoughts rolled through my mind that I would become an instant "webstar". I had these wonderful images of overnight success with unlimited traffic and hot selling items. It was just like one of those fairytale movies with no bad scenes. It was perfect and nothing was going to stop me from having my own perfect little movie. There was no thought to the reality of the cost of producing that movie which I would take the lead role. All seemed like a piece of cake till I actually saw the bill and the hours of painstaking, unpaid work and research put into everything just to even get started with my first opening show with no ticket holders. The thought of being this almost non-existent floating particle in a vast universe of computers and the internet almost made me want to log off and shut down. It was no longer the same dream as I once had. A sense of impending failure loomed over my head. Questions popp...

It was the year 2003 when our city made the international news for a major fire. There was extensive damage to a provincial park and thick smoke and ash hovered over the whole valley and city. This made breathing a little difficult and my husband and I were somewhat scared. We decided to stay with relatives further up north for a little while just to get away from fire scene. We quickly packed some necessities and soon headed on our way. It was about an hour and a half after driving that it began to get dark. We were about an hour away from the next major city. I had some hesitations about going any further and thought about turning the car around and heading back home. However, I continued on and we came to the next city and had a bite to eat at a fast food restaurant. My husband and I left the restaurant and headed back toward the car. I put the key in the ignition and it took several turns to get the car started. It began to sputter and choke, I became somewhat worried then but fina...