Click HERE for my take on assisted suicide, euthanasia, and related matters!!!

Hi! Glad you could make it!  I have a feeling that we're going to have a great visit, and I hope you won't be a stranger but will come back often!!!

For starters, my name is

Ainsley Jo Phillips

and most people call me

Ainsley Jo

or

AJ

though some also call me

Jo

and, no doubt, others call me names that I'm way too polite to print here!

LOLOLOL

I'll give you a thumbnail sketch of myself in brief:

Christian-Under-Construction

Alpha & Omega

(translation:

one of those only, spoiled children)

of

Ray & Ainsley (nee:Jobe) Phillips

Lifelong resident of Anderson, Indiana USA

Freelance writer & part-owner of

PAC Development, Inc.

Born

Right-On-Time

(probably one of my most prompt moments)

at

St. John's Medical Center

back when it was

St. John's Hospital

December 12, 1952

at

1:27 P.M. Anderson, Indiana time

I sometimes have a way of really cluttering things up--and I'm not just talking about my housekeeping habits (though they also figure in)--so I'm going to try to be careful with that when designing this website.  Therefore, I won't be saying much more on this first page (this section) but will let my other pages tell you more about me and the way that I interpret my surroundings and the general state of the universe.  After all, I'm a writer, and writers are supposed to be good at that sort of thing.  Hope you'll want to hang around at least a little longer--and, as I said before, I hope you'll come back here again, once-in-awhile, once you've decided to say, "So long for now!"

On the same day that I started working on this website (August 20, 2003), I began a new online diary.  This is a special day, because it would have been my maternal grandpa's 131st. birthday.  He passed away in 1959 on the last day of August and my first day of first-grade.

http://www.my-diary.org/users/106165

One more thing. . .this diary has the option of having its pages read in what's called the printer-friendly version.  To me, that's the easiest way to read it, and I think you'll tend to agree!

Do I have PMS at the moment?

Even if I do, how much does it really matter when it comes to my Imood?

Guess what
!?!

If you scroll clear down to the bottom of this page, you'll find a really cute and unique counter, which I added on Monday, January 18, 2004.  I hope you'll scroll down and see it--but don't skip the good stuff in-between in your hurry to get there.

One example of "good stuff" is this little tip-jar I set up on the same day.

Here's how to use it
(but only if you want to):

Look around my website, and you'll find out that I write for a number of sites.  Some pay cash and some don't.

I've started to notice that some of my fellow writers have decided to make like waitpersons, bellhops, street musicians, etc. and collect tips--and I decided that this just might not be a bad idea for me, too.

On that note, I decided to ask around and find out more about how this was done, and I noticed that I could set something up like this via PayPal.

Since they also take a cut and a small fee, I'll have to not accept any tips under a dollar or I might end up in the hole with a big headache.

Therefore, I must warn you that any donation under a dollar cannot be accepted.

Again, this isn't a command performance, and I hope you'll feel free to read as much of my writing as you want to and do so for free.

However, if you ever feel like it, just tip me by clicking here:

Thanks, in advance, for your tips
!!!

J