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Emails from the Edge defies today's world of political correctness where every word is carefully censored so as not to offend anyone. Kristie Leigh Maguire is open, honest, and sometimes over-the-top funny in her email correspondence with her friend back in the States with whom she shares  her thoughts and feelings while living overseas as an expatriate wife during the decade of the 90s.  Emails from the Edge, gives the reader the feeling of being a voyeur, pulling back the curtain of friendship, and finding out they are not just talking about milk and cookies.  

USA Today Bestselling Author Rebecca Forster had this to say, "A bold, honest look at how two cultures collide and lessons learned. Some may think KLM politically incorrect; I say she is courageous to share her honest feelings and inner thoughts. It is really gutsy and fascinating."

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Saipan is a tropical island with clear blue waters, sandy beaches, tropical flowers, swaying palm trees, gentle breezes and warm and friendly Micronesian South Pacific natives - plus the added bonus of being a U.S. territory with American goods in the stores and with American money as the local currency.  What more could a girl ask for?

All of the Japanese people on the tour were oooohing and ahhhhing over all the duty free shops and souvenirs. I was in the local version of Wal-Mart, oooohing and ahhhhing over shampoo and conditioner, body lotion, Pepto Bismol, Tylenol and Motrin  - and generally running wild through the aisles like a crazy woman!

I got up before dawn each day and sat out on my balcony by myself while my husband slept. As I watched the sun come up, peace flooded my soul.  That old church song, "Precious
Memories", kept playing itself in my mind like Daddy used to sing it in church.  I sat out there and watched the colors tint the clouds and the ocean waters while the refrain of "Precious memories, unseen angels, how they ever flood my soul, in the stillness of the midnight, precious memories scenes unfold" played over and over in my head.  

I was reborn.  I found myself again.  I knew that I was on the edge but I had not realized how close I had come to losing myself till that moment.

5.0 out of 5 stars Legal Eavesdropping, December 1, 2010

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This review is from: Emails from the Edge: When Friendship Spans the Distance. (Kindle Edition)

Have you even wanted to eavesdrop on a conversation between friends just to see what they are thinking?

Well, Kristie Leigh Maguire gives you that opportunity.

This is the real life conversations that occurred between friends when one of them was in Japan. It carries you through all the drama, hardships and laughter that the author went through in trying to adjust to life as an American in a foreign country.

If you ever thought it would be fun to "hack" into someone's email to see what makes them tick, this is your chance.

You will laugh, cry and laugh again at the trials and tribulations that an American in Japan would go through.

I recommend that you join the author and her friend in their lives.....well, just eavesdrop on them.

Where were you when 9/11 happened?

This post has nothing at all to do with romance. It is as far away from romance as one can possible get.

Today is the 8th anniversary of the horrible event we all simply call 9/11. This event forever changed life as we knew it in America...and the world for that matter. So many things have changed about our way of life because of 9/11 and it will never ever go back to the way it was before 9/11. The Genie is out of the bottle. He (she) cannot be stuffed back in.

So many people lost their lives that day. So many families lost their loved ones, their lives forever scarred. Even people who did not lose anyone in that tragic event will be forever scarred because of it.

There are events in one's lives that happen that one will always remember where they were when it happened.

President Kennedy's assassination is one that I will always remember where I was that day. I was in 10th grade Civics class and it was announced over the intercom.

The space shuttle Challenger blowing up is another event that I will always remember where I was that day. I was living in Mobile, AL and watching it on TV with some of my friends.

9/11 will also be forever branded into my mind. I will always remember where I was at that day. I was living in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. With the time difference, it was already nighttime in Saudi Arabia. My husband was working night shift and I was home alone. I did not know anything was happening, even though I was up late working on a manuscript for a book I was writing, until I received an email from an author friend of mine. His email simply stated... "America is under attack!" My friend had a wierd sense of humor and I thought he was joking around with me. I emailed another friend of mine and they said it was not a joke. I turned on the TV and listened to BBC (one of the few outside news stations we could get) and was horrified by what I saw and heard. And I WAS SCARED OUT OF MY MIND because my husband and I were living in Saudi Arabia...the country where many of the terrorists were from. I could go on and on about my experiences living in Saudi Arabia after this and until I could leave but I will not do so now. That may be a post for another time but not now.

My question to you, my fans, is where were you on 9/11? What were your thoughts, your feelings? Did you lose a loved one? Did you know someone who lost a loved one?