Hi fellow hubber! Some people have asked for my other blog sites, so I decided to give you an outline of what you can find on the web, by MarisueWrites.

Wanting to build an empire of writing, I began with a parenting website called www.partnershipinparenting.com. This site will tell the story of my parenting experiences as a foster parent, and a mother of three sons. I don't talk much about the hubby there, as I gave him his own site, mentioned further down in this hub. However, at PIP, I talk about everything that affects the family including stress, spousal relationships, single parenting, step-parenting, bad parenting, good parenting, moods, "normal" parenting, child abuse, domestic violence, grief, and all things in-between, including some cheerful stuff just in case you're in that zone.

While we were parenting those 250+ foster kids and our own 3 sons, my husband did cop things for 30 years. Those stories ended up on talesfromthebadge.com and I promise everything on there is as true as memory allows. My husband was the rare kind of policeman and investigator. The one with a heart.

Sometimes you'll run into a story about domestic violence and child abuse, he bumped into many of those. It's a huge part of police work, and our life was a blend of parenting, police experiences, and similar tales. Some stories will make you cry, and many are really funny. I could have named the site Cop Bloopers, but Lynn didn't want to appear the fool. I do hafe to live with the man. Nothing is as strange or funny as the truth, yes?

Since all those kids expected to eat, I came up with a few recipe sites such as: quickmealsforone.com, quickmealsfortwo.com and something for the man who hangs out in the backyard. Might as well put him to work and you can do that with recipes from grillingiseasy.com. I found myself needing to be out of the kitchen fast most of the time, and those recipes are on fiveingredients.com. However, variety is the spice of life for me, so I cheated and some recipes are less and some are more than five ingredients, but who's counting. Hopefully I labeled them as such.

Since I love talking about family and kids, I recently added a site called raisingyourkid.com and that site will focus on just parenting, as Partnership In Parenting has bloomed a little beyond the original focus, much like a wandering vine. In every article, I have included a "Foster Parenting Connection" just to show you how I got so smart.

Speaking of wandering vines, I have a few garden sites for the lover of bugs and blooms. Among the leaves so green are raisingsunflowers.com and butterflyattracting.com, where you will find an article or two from Bard of Ely who is also right here on Hubpages! No one knows butterflies as well as the "Butterfly Man!" Head on over to read fun information about our flying flowers, or check Bard Of Ely out on the Hub.

My mother, whom I write a lot about on hubpages, was a lover of petunias. Everywhere I have lived, since her death in 1970, I plant petunias in her honor. Since, 1977 my husband has picked up that habit, too. At petuniagarden.com you'll read all about those beautiful blooms and a bit about the birds and the bees.

A chronic insomniac, I created a site called fiftywishesnow.com. You guessed it, it's about sleep, dreams and other wishes. I'm always snooping around for angels whispering by, so tiptoe around that site and don't scare them away.

Never without an opinion, much like my parents, I had to have a place to talk about news and current events. On anamericanday.com you'll find a series called "The Morning Alert" where I voice a frequent commentary about a current event of interest, and you're right! It's in full support of President Obama plus a few critical comments about people - and I use the term loosely - like Rush Limpbaugh, or Limbaugh rather, Newt has recently made an entrance, and I am adding a few comments about the ever-increasingly looney Glenn Beck to the growing extremist list. I also have a column there called "The Economical Minute"and "The Political Moment."

When nothing I want to write about fits those categories, I have my main domain of marisuewrites.com which I hope one day to be as much a hit as Martha Stewart. Yeah, right.

I want everything about my mom's walk with blindness to be contained on a site of it's own so NoLossOfSight.com was created in her honor, though it is still under construction. One day, I'll have a coffee table version of "Living In the Land of Odd" which mainly describes a day in my life, husband included. Those two sites have been purchased and birthed, but are still in infancy. It takes awhile for some creations to grow up.

I also want to discuss a brief stint I had with a payday loan company as the manager, skam included, so you'll soon find those stories on paydaygorilla.com along with budgeting information and a bit of history about money and taxes. At least that's the plan. That site has google adsense on it, but none of my "cents" yet, as It's fairly new and time is always short with me.

Oh, I can't forget barntales.com, which has a current story about a horse named TallPal. He was an old forgotten horse on my uncle's farm, and a dear friend to an 11 year old girl, me. I'll probably throw in a few yaks about the chicken coop, for what is a farm without chicken feathers flyin' around? I loved those little cluckers, but then, I was a city girl. I hardly ever had to clean the chicken pen.

That should keep you busy, but if you need to walk your dog, do so on barkaboutyourdog.com and if you just can't wait to "yeow about your kitty," (that phrase courtesy of Sally's Trove) then pussy-foot on over to meowaboutyourcat.com and I'll buy you a coke if you bookmark these and visit them often!! I could email you a hug. I could send you a chocolate kiss, and I'll throw in a night of free babysitting. Maybe. How about breakfast? I can't spend the night unless I bring Lynn, he's kinda grouchy about that kind of stuff.

If you need more of me, and who wouldn't want that, I actually do have more sites, but those are the main blogs. I'll jump for joy if you visit www.partnershipinparenting.com as I'm really mad at Google for de-ranking the pages lately, so send your friends!! It's a great site, with good traffic, what does Google know?

Looking back, I think I've fibbed a little, I don't actually create the sites, my brother does. All the really good suggestions for the sites come from me and especially the content. Ahem. You can find him at level1diet.com where he talks about everything healthy. He's also at hubpages under the same name, level1diet.

Now, go. Click your little fingers to death. GO. Happy surfing.