Cynde Hammond

I'm a 53 yr. old, extremely happily married, Christian woman who is married to the most wonderful, caring, thoughtful, handsome, romantic, Godly man in the world--and he's my soul-mate! We have two sons (Josh, age 21 & Jon, age 17) that are the greatest kids you'd ever want to meet--not like so many of the kids of today with their bottoms showing and their disrespect for their elders showing as well.

I have a twin sister, Sande, that looks just like me (poor thing), another set of twin sisters, Barbara & Beverly, an older sister Carol Lee, that's really cool, two half-brothers, Freddie & Tracy, and my brother, John, that's in Heaven.

Dion has an older sister named Donna and two younger brothers named Daren and Drew and his older brother, Dana, is in Heaven.
I've known Dion since he was just a young boy before his brother, Dana, got killed in a tragic car accident. Dana was so special and amazing! He and Dion were very close and it totally changed the course of Dion's entire life to lose Dana like that. It changed my life drastically, too. You see, I was engaged to Dana when he was killed in that car accident--and it was almost the end of my life, too. I loved Dana so much that I didn't really want to live when I lost him, but some how I found the strength--I didn't realize it then, but the Lord started watching over me in a special way and He would reveal Himself to me later on in my life. (I made a lot of wrong turns in my life, but they all lead me to where I am today--that's why I wouldn't change a thing!)

But right then, Dana's (and Dion's) father started watching over me--like I was part of the family--and this continued, right on through my getting married to an abusive husband and then divorced, moving to Texas, then to Virginia, then back to New York State--a span of about 25 yrs.--and then I found DION. Who but the Lord would have thought to have put the two of us together? Well, we're a perfect match, we're soul-mates and I just know that Dana is looking down from Heaven and smiling because he's happy for both of us! Praise God!

Now I write children's books (nothing published yet) and I'm working on my debut right now. (It's a crime-mystery novel for Young Adults.) I've written several poems and short-stories for magazines (both fiction and non-fiction) and I love to write letters and almost any kind of writing. Right now I'm taking a two-year writing course at the Institute of Children's Literature to help me hone my writing skills (I've almost completed it!) and from there I'm probably going to take some more college writing courses.

My husband and I both absolutely LOVE TO READ and my husband reads to me all the time. (it's one of my favorite things in the world to do!) Sometimes Dion, Jon and I will take a play and read it out loud, just the three of us. We'll have our own parts to play and we'll try to do the different voices and just play-act together and see how it goes. We have a blast together!
We collect antiquarian, first edition books, some autographed. We also collect antique clocks and have them all over the house--you should hear it when it's high noon! It might drive other people crazy, but we love it--it's like music to our ears. We have so much in common that we fit together like a hand in a close-fitting glove--Dion is my everything, my soul-mate, and the love of my life.

I'm also interested in learning about photography so that I can take some really nice photos. In addition, I'd like to learn all about PSP and tag-making so that I can create my own tags and share them. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do some really creative things by the time the kids get married, so I can create some exciting wedding album pages for them.

I sound pretty ambitious, along with wanting to go riding on the back of my husband's motorcycle with him and riding horses and all the other passions of my life. Where do I get all that time and energy? I'm glad you asked--sort of.

You see, that's the catch--I have all this ambition and all these dreams and plenty of time to do it in...but my body just won't cooperate with me. I'm disabled. Yeah, I know...it stinks! It's been twelve years already and I hate it! Lots of people think--ooh, how cool--she doesn't have to work and she gets to stay home. Well, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It makes you feel kinda worthless inside (in a way--except that I know that I'm a child of the KING and that's awesome!) I want to do things and be productive and not feel like my life is being wasted. I know--volunteer, right? If I could, I would! I'm just in too much pain to do almost anything. I have Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) which is otherwise known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)--which are both just big scary-sounding titles for basically just a chronic pain condition of the nerves which now seems to involve my ENTIRE BODY, but mostly my hands and arms.

At least my writing I can do in my head and thank God for the new soft-ware that types for you as you speak into the computer--it's amazing. And my husband is always thinking up inventive ways of helping me to do everyday-things that most people take for granted. Most days I can't even turn the door knob, unzip a zipper, open a ziploc baggie, or brush my hair. That's one of the reasons I'm so thankful for Dion. Right now I'm not able to do the cooking, so he's been doing it --and he even has to help me with showers sometimes. But he never complains or makes me feel like a burden--if he did, it could easily destroy my self-esteem--but instead, he's always trying to build me up! Yes, I'm a woman that is truly blessed!