LaDonnaMarie

I write magazine articles but now want to write a novel. I've done all I need to do but I need the very basics on how to format a manuscript using WORD. I know which font to use but need~ font size, what size font to put in the header, whether to justify the paragraphs or not, whether to turn turn off widow/orphan control and where the page number goes (center. left or right). Thanks out there. You guys are the best!

Who has read the Urantia book? Do you believe it? What does it mean to you? Who it wrote and why?

How do I change my profile name on answers?

My step-daughter did everything in her power to destroy my life physically, emotionally and spiritually? Should I return the favor? Or I stay in Hades and hope that someday the man can take me across the River Styx and into normalcy?

1. When my first marriage ended, I had an attorney but accepted under guideline child support, no alimony, and I also didn't take the boat, house or new car. I moved into a rental and drove a used compact.

2. I am disabled now and feel drowned and hopeless. I can't go into all of it but he's extremely verbally abusive and his daugher has put me thru the unthinkable. I am at his mercy, I feel.

He is to receive an inheritance soon. Am I entitled to hallf under California's community property laws?

PS. I had a doc appt. yesterday and he called me an "effing B" in front of the staffers and patients. That's nothing, really.

I am shocked beyond anything, today. I always answer but today I need all of you. I am named LaDonna and my best friend of 20 years WAS named Donna. All though the years it was one sided. I always heard her problems and dealt with her problems. I watched her kids, fed them and she knew she wasn't supportive of me. She said so one time. But I am guilty of helping people all of the time. I could go on and on but it's simple. I began to open up to her about me. On 7-25 I received the cruelest e-mail I have ever seen or read. She shredded me, tore at my kids and my husband. Even my house. But my kids? They are so precious to me! She's so cold. I examined the last 20 years and let it rip to her. I know two wrongs don't make a right but just yesterday I was praying and somehow in my soul I knew some of my friends have just been users. She's a cruel, cruel woman. I know we are divided in this forum but alot of us have kids. The last thing I'd ever do is rip and tear at your kids out there. Maybe I have solved my own problem. I got the e-mail. I realized it had been one-sided for 20 years. Twenty. A very long time. When I read those cold words about my kids, I let it rip at all I've had to hear for twenty years. Here is an example. She left her own two girls to trot off to the coast and live her own way. She left her kids with a man who loves them but still uses them against their mother. These girls began to doubt their mother. She then was having two affairs going. She got pregnant. She lost it. In all of this, she got pregnant again. She lost it. This so-called friend was in the bathroom. She held the dead fetus and then flushed it. I am deeply hurt. I whited out her name in my address book. Should I let it go? Am I done with this twenty years? Have I done enough? Where did I go wrong? Please don't tell me I am stupid or am a sucker. I already know that. Just looking to resolve it and bury it. Thanks, everybody and you know? I love your kids! P.S. I think she's afraid to continue being friends. She is married to a man (one of the guys from those two affairs after she divorced the other guy she married from the other affair). Her husband is bad news. But I think her desperation made her marry a man she made fun of! But, it's his house. No, her girls don't live there. She doesn't even have any pictures of those girls in HIS house. Also, she can't tell her husband the truth about herself. Her marriage is built on a house of cards. Should I continue to care or walk away and let her just unravel?

I am here today seeking a sponsor for a poetry competition to be held in July for four days. I am a published poet and underpaid (vastly) freelance writer. I am looking for a businessman/woman who will sponsor me for the competition. The cost is $545.00 and that includes lectures, classes, a promotional booth and award event. If I can find a sponsor, I would market your company for the four days of the event, if you can supply fliers, magnets, pens or anything else about your company. I would also write a booklet with a history of your company complete with stories of your staffers, how you got started and accompanying applicable poetry. I have also written a poetry book, too, and any sales from these books I would gladly give back to you or donate (in your name) to the charity of your choice. And when I accept my award, I would thank everyone in the name of my sponsor and express my gratefulness that the sponsor was able to send me this year.

We have recently acquired a German Shorthair puppy. They are pointers, heelers and sniifers. They are from the hound family. She is 5-1/2 months old and we are having trouble training her not to urinate in the house. She drinks an IMMENSE amount of water and we really have to take her out about once an hour to avoid accidents and once in the night. She does not defecate in the house. She urinates alot and I wondered if it was because her Central Nervous System is still developing or if there might be a medical condition that needs to be attended to. I have heard that vast water drinking could be a sign of diabetes. I am looking for someone with knowledge of this breed who can perhaps shed light on the issue for us. She is our first bird dog and we are unfamiliar with their habits. Thanks for any help you can give us!

I am a certified paralegal with an expertise in line by line document proofing. Do any of you out there know of any organizations that employs freelance proofers? Or are there websites I can go to and advertise my services at no cost? At this time, I can't really afford to pay for advertisement. Thanks for your help!

I am a beginning freelance writer who has just started getting jobs. I wanted to see if any of you out there had knowledge of organizations, websites, etc. where I could advertise at no charge for my services? I can't really afford to advertise yet but I am an award winning writer and poet. If you have any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

In my first marriage, I never had to douche. I have always been extra clean but I never smelled for those ten years. Now I am remarried to a healthy male with no problems. Here is my concern. I wonder that if when we have sex his sperm interacts with my body and there is a negative response, which causes odor. I always take care of the odor, believe me. I asked a very qualified professional after I had a hysterectomy if I could douche. He won OB/GYN for the State of California that year and he said I could douche as much as I want. With my new marriage, if I don't douche I notice a light odor that embarasses me. So I keep douching. And yes, I have been checked up and I am fine. No infections or anything like that. Do you think it's a sperm reaction or the fact that I am 43 and my body is changing. I have one ovary left and wondered if there was a healthcare professional out there who could shed some light on this. This question has been hard to ask but I need decent answers.

I need help. I am trying to name the cars that are American made, normally have two doors and are modeled after old coupes. I can't remember what it is and I am going nuts. They may be by Chrysler. They are very popular, also.

My step-daughter is extremely promiscous and insists that she uses protection. Firstly, she has some kind of infection so I am unsure if she is REALLY using condoms everytime because it doesn't sound like a standard yeast infection (we have a doctor appt.). Also, she says she makes the guy "respect her first". Whatever this means. How can I help her respect her body and her choices by letting her know that not all guys (some do) really respect her and how do I let her know she is endangering herself with this behavior? She writes of being a "nymphomaniac" and constantly writes strange lists with words like "orgasm", "sex", "sexuality" and she takes pictures of penises. How can I let her know that she is only abusing herself by doing this? Help!

I am not clear on exactly HOW bipolar disorder works but I fear for my step-daughter. I don't know if she could be bipolar (hee Mother is) but I wanted some insight as to IF she could be suffering from it. Here is the way she is:

1. She vanishes for days on end. When she comes home she sleeps all day and stays up all night. She cannot get to sleep until the wee hours of the morning.

2. She is very promiscuous and recently told me that she made the guy "respect her first". Whatever that means. No offense to you decent guys, but respect could come in the form of kind words to lure her into the sack. She seems hypersexual and writes about being a "nymphomaniac" and "orgasms".

3. At times, she cannot take any type of crticism, even constructive. At times, she can. She has trouble getting along with other females and it has cost her three jobs.

4. Sometimes she is as sweet as can be and at other times exhibits explosive anger.