Last night, I went to bed with a smile on my face.

Because of Mary’s email.

I have lovely friends around the world. Many I’ve met through my email list. Some are very young. And some, like Grandpa Bill, are in their mid-eighties.

One of the nicest, warmest, kindest people I’ve got to know over the years is a 76-year old grandma, Mary Kathryn Donachy. At first, I thought of her as just another subscriber with a hope and dream of doing something online.

And then she sent me a digital clipping of one newspaper story about her (yes, Mary has been in newspapers, radio, even National talk shows - because of her passion). It opened my eyes to the inspirational hero she was.

• Believe it or not, she learned to use computers around age 70
• She had zero knowledge about online marketing - but a burning passion
• After personal hardships that would crush most others, she has emerged stronger

And after a steep learning curve, figuring out how to approach her niche, create an information business around her passion, and working her agonizing way through the baby steps to set up her first website, she now has broken through.

Big time.

This is yesterday’s email that made me smile:

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“WOW!

I am so excited today!! Autism Today, my favorite autism website is going to back my work. I have their full support!!

Isn’t that exciting? Think now of how many people I can reach.

Know what??

I will never be able to thank you enough for all you have done to help me thus far.”

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What is Mary’s passion?

Her grand-daughter. A sweet child named Jenny. And Jenny is autistic.

Mary has been her primary care-giver for years. She takes such pride and joy in raising her autistic grand-child that it shines through in everything Mary says or does. The passion is what first caught my attention in our email exchanges, showed me this is someone special.

Her passion made Mary relentless in her pursuit of her goal.

Her passion gave her energy to overcome hurdles.

Her passion encouraged her to keep on keeping on.

I encourage you to visit her website - just to share in her passion. It’s contagious. It will reach across the web page and envelop you. And you’ll be a better person for it.

“The Autistic Touch” is at http://www.theautistictouch.com/

Mary publishes an email newsletter which I also encourage you to sign up for - to see how simple, clear, yet incredibly powerful writing can be… when it comes from the heart!

Mary’s email newsletter is free - click here

My journey as an email newsletter publisher and email marketer has been so richly rewarding because it brings me into contact with some fantastic people.

People whom I may never have heard of or met otherwise.

People who willingly allowed me into their deeply meaningful lives.

People who share their joys and frustrations with me - like a good friend.

People who inspire and energize me beyond belief… just by doing what they must.

If you want to set your first step on this fabulous journey to being an ezine publisher and email marketer, I invite you to visit the Ezine Marketing Center.

And if you want to fully experience everything the rich tapestry of Life has to offer you, tap into your own special PASSION.

My PASSION manifesto is about just that…