Author & speaker,
CLAIRE KRULIKOWSKI

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To the person requesting info on the original publisher of Moonlight on the Ganga: The small press that had put the first edition out in early 2001 was Daybue Publications, LLC. However, they closed their doors in 2003, and let the website lapse (ergo their URL was purchased by a porn site - YIKES!). I've no information at all about Robert Earle or why the inquiry (Perhaps he was one of Daybue's authors?). No, I'm afraid that the Daybue trail is cold. Perhaps if you purchased a copy of his book(s), it might reference the "Coming Home" book to which you're referring, but that's about the only help I can offer. - Claire P.S. As this was left on the Discussion board instead of as an email to me, I've no idea who left this message.

I am interested in getting a hold of the original publisher of "Moonlight on the Ganga" and I was wondering if you know how I can get a hold of them.I can't seem to find the press on the internet, hence this note. Did/do you know of Robert Earle? I believe he worked in television/film for 30 years and left to write novels and "Coming Home" is his first book. Do you know if this the same Robert Earle? Tks for you time.

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I would like to see a discussion about women who have been tied to some place that is unmoving, and chances they take, as you seem to have, and the many results of this taking life back, and opening it up to be lived more fully. I think stories would be nice, and even unfinished stories, because life, afterall, never finishes...

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NICE IDEA, though I don't know who the suggester is - and the idea is one I wasn't sure how to approach, but, okay, let's open this up to some discussion.

Sometimes we are not aware of our strengths and see ourselves quite differently than our actions demonstrate. For example, after leaving my management position back in 1994, I went to a prestigious career counselor in Seattle. After several of our weekly meetings, the counselor asked me one day whether I believed I was a risk taker or more cautious and conservative (can't recall now the exact terminology used, but this was the jist). I said I was cautious, conservative, and then watched a bit of a grin slip onto her cheek, escape her "poker face" guard.

She picked up the long application forms I'd filled out, consulted her notes, and began talking with me. Some of the "reminders" she pulled out were the following: What type of person (risk taker or cautious person) would do the following: demonstrate for peace at age 13 during the early years of the Vietnam war; take a leave from college against her parents wishes and travel alone cross country on a bus with just a back pack on her back because she wanted to see the southwest and spend time in California; after college and working for a few years in an editing firm, quiting her job with 2 weeks notice because of a desire to move to California (and then move there 2 weeks later without any job set up); 13 years later move from California to Washington for a promised job and leave a beloved beachside condo and lifestyle for the unknown; quit that very high paying management job without any security blanket because she wasn't happy nor feel successful???????

I had to pause. It took me up short, for while I was very aware and sometimes even talked about how I'd done all that (and more), my consciousness hadn't placed it into an awareness of risk taker - with all the good strengths that awareness and title provides (or, at least, during this time period of my life had covered it up and hidden me from the awareness). That conversation woke me up from a haze that had fallen over me, and helped place me on a new foundation.

So, it's not so much asking "What's my risk if I do xyz?" but the asking, too, of "What do I risk if I DON'T do xyz?" There is also the necessity to take real stock of yourself at certain periods of your life, check in, and see what course you're on.
-- Claire