I smile, you cry...

One of the hardest
things for me throughout
the writing of Daddy's Briefcase
was how to end the book.

The first twenty chapters,
after long intense all night writing,
came almost like a piece of cake.
My photographic memory just laid
everything out so easy for me.

It was the ending that held me so close to
how I thought others should/would see
my story, take it, be touched by it.

After a further intense thought process,
it came to me. Me sharing my story
was just that, me sharing my story.
It's not my job to determine how others
will be touched by it. What was up to me,
was to fully share my story to the best
of my ability.

And God will do the rest!

It was like taking a paper cutter
and cutting the back end of the book
off!

The Friday after the big announcement
Daddy's Briefcase was now available,
I got a text from my best friend...

that read,

"Got my book in the mail
today!!! Now I have tears
running down my face!! So much
for my makeup job!!! LOL"

Just days before, I already
warned her that the actual book
was so much different than the
loose leaf pages she read months/years
before print.

Getting her text was just one of the
many messages I have already received.
It has been so humbling to watch
and hear how Daddy's Briefcase
has already touched so many people.

I know God promises to use our suffering,
if we let Him, for our good and His glory.

Dear friends, do not be surprised
at the painful trial you are suffering,
as though something strange were happening to you.
But rejoice that you participate in Christ's sufferings,
so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
1 Peter 4:12, 13 NIV

Keeping in mind, she wasn't crying
because of reading it. She was simply
crying because of all I have been through
and I am able to tell about it!

That's kinda how my life goes,
I smile, you cry...

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Daddy's Briefcase

  Being the center of a prayer is powerful!
  But very indescribable...

  Eleven years ago, this time of year,
  I was the center of a gigantic-
  statewide/nationwide- prayer while
  fighting for my life battling LIVER CANCER.

  During that time not only was my life
 touched, but all those around me-family and friends,
 even people I didn't know.

So, you know how you hear people say,
 "I feel it's my calling" to do such-in-such...
well guess what!? I am here to tell you it has been
"my calling" to fully share my story with everyone!

Yikes!!!

Just for me that's scary, I am a very private person!

After five long years of trying to talk
myself out of writing the details down
in a book, it's finally finished.

You can order it here!

Thanks to everyone for your support and happy readings...
ashley :)

An astonishing journey straight from the heart of a young cancer survivor...

At the young age of twenty-three, Ashley Murphy, already a wife and mother, struggled to find her way in the working world. When finally her dream job was offered! She gave a two-week notice immediately. Only it was cut short to one week, due to being diagnosed with cancer. No time for illness, Ashley thought there must have been a mistake. As she grasped for strength from those rallied around her, she quickly realized the one she really wanted was not there, her Daddy. Just three years prior, Ashley stood beside him as he took his last breath. Then the next day, while planning his funeral, more unsettling news arrived.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Daddy's Briefcase will be donated each year to a Cancer Foundation of the authors choice.

Please, please once you have read Daddy's Briefcase  post a review over at amazon.com under customer reviews, thanks!

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Daddy's Briefcase is now available.

We are closer now than ever before...

On a recent ride home from Disney World,
my family and I would sing every 30 minutes or so
"we are closer now than ever before". Might I add
the drive one way is 10-12 hours depending on who
is driving! :)

We quickly remember on that ride home why it had been
2007 since our last Disney trip. So in 3 or 4 years from
now please remind me, no, "you really don't want to do that."

Over all we really did enjoy ourselves, although my youngest
daughter appeared to be sick on the way down there. What seemed
like an allergy attack, turned into fever the next day. And who
knew Orlando has 5 Walgreen's....our family doctor kindly called in
meds. Every time we pulled up to one they would tell the hubby, "no sir,
this is not the one!" So back in the car on a wild ride we would go, til finally
a pharmacy was kind enough to transfer the Rx since it was closing time.

She never ran fever again, still had other symptoms.
I just figured it was strep...until we got back home and
settled in for a return back to school from spring break.
She started running fever again. Off to the doctor we went,
they tested her for everything....
flu, strep, mono, check her blood count etc.....
She has mono, yelp mono. No fun!

When we got home from the doctor that day I left her check the mail.
Another proof arrived, I lost count really of what number this was,
maybe number 7!
My daughter started asking lots of questions.
"Why so many proofs, how much has this cost,
what will you do next, can Daddy and I build a stand to sell them!?"

I finally okayed this proof, so I say to you "We are closer now than ever before."

Now it will take 5-7 business days for it to be available on Amazon.com.

I am at a cross-road...!

So I got the third proof,
which was good, almost perfectly
matching the first proof from a color stand point.

Although, I had a few minor changes on the
interior. So I decided to change a very small
something on the exterior, cover. This meant I
would be getting a fourth proof. Boy was that
a big mistake. The color of the cover changed
completely. Why? Well that's what I asked!

So at this point I am at a cross-road!

I am trying to work with the printing company
to see if its off color on their behalf or mine...

So once again a delay!

I am so sorry, I know so many wonder just
where this book is.