Vicki M Taylor

Category: books

  • Not Getting Engaged

    What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? I look down at my left hand and see a familiar sight. My engagement ring. How long has it been there? Nearly thirty years. It really wasn’t an engagement ring when my boyfriend gave it to me, so many years ago. He’d been married before and so had…

  • The Fruit Explosion

    List your top 5 favorite fruits. My most favorite fruit of all are blueberries. When I was a kid, we lived near a blueberry farm. All the neighbor kids worked there for the summer. We were given a basket and had to pick enough to fill it. Each bucketload was a dollar. If you were…

  • Resilience in the Face of Health Challenges

    When the body wages war against itself, true strength emerges not in the absence of pain, but in how we carry it. Living with health challenges requires a special kind of courage – one that walks silently alongside suffering while continuing to move forward. There’s a particular art to maintaining your inner fortress when pain…

  • My favorite Holiday

    I What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite? It has to be Thanksgiving. Not for the food, most of which I can’t eat anyway due to my Gastroparesis. It’s what the holiday represents. Thankfulness. Grateful. Peace. It’s when families can get together and for one day forget about petty issues. It’s where…

  • Walking God’s Path: My Journey to WriteMaster.coach

    The Birth of a Ministry Through divine guidance, my book “Words Heal” began to take shape. What started as a personal project soon revealed itself as something more—the foundation of WriteMaster.coach, a self-guided workshop for fiction writers that God was calling me to create. This isn’t just another writing website. This is a ministry—a place…

  • My favorite food

    What is your favorite restaurant? I used to have several favorite foods, and with those favorite restaurants that with them. Seafood was easy, the best restaurants near the Gulf. Mexican food took me to Varettas in Florida and Karichamakas in Tucson, AZ. I wasn’t keen on Italian, but I loved a little restaurant called Angels,…

  • Surviving Five

    When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? At five, my adopted father started sexually abusing me. He would come into my room at night and wait for me to fall asleep. I learned at a very young age to never sleep. What I wanted more than anything was…

  • Why I am so Resilient

    What’s something most people don’t understand? I have had a very rough life. And continue to, even now. But, I don’t let it get me down. Sure, I could play the “poor me” card every day, but why? What does it really get me? Nothing that I want. I don’t want people tiptoeing around me,…

  • My favorite teacher

    Who was your most influential teacher? Why? My favorite teacher was my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Clark. I could talk to her about anything. We talked about me getting my first kiss from a boy I liked. We talked about me getting glasses. And she helped me understand they didn’t change who I was. And…

  • New Book Release

    Shadow Man coming 4/4/25 Unbroken: Fictional Chronicles of Warrior ResilienceThis compelling compilation of fictional short stories explores the journey through trauma and resilience, spanning from childhood to the wisdom of the sixth decade. Each carefully crafted narrative illuminates how seemingly unbearable moments—the kind that fracture lives and shatter spirits—can instead forge an unexpected inner warrior.…