About
Hi there! I was born Patricia A. White in New Market, Ontario, Canada and moved to Chicago at the age of 6. My name was changed to DiVita to protect the innocent. No, not really. I was adopted. I grew up in Illinois, attended the U of I and graduated with a degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology which I used for a little while, but it wasn't near as much fun and entertaining as working in restaurants--which I loved. I did a variety of other jobs too, including Financial Planning, ranch work, had a photography business, did videography and construction. I've lived in 6 states and 4 countries and love to travel and experience different cultures, ride horses and motorcycles (especially in the mountains), and I'm very involved in water awareness and conservation. I wrote "Me 'n Jess" in 2001 while living in Ireland (the reason I used my Irish birth name), and was in the process of publishing it when an idea for a restaurant movie took over. "Did I Say Thousand Island?" was premiered in 2007 and has been well received in over 185 countries. I intend to have the movie remade and be used as a benefit movie to raise awareness and funds for the Global Water Crisis (remake4water.org). And the book? I had it published in 2010 for family and a few friends, but now have published it using CreateSpace, and hope you like it! I'm going to donate a portion of the proceeds--in all formats, to water organizations that help people get water. Thanks for helping, and please spread the word!
Description
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
Story Behind The Book
Hi! Jesse was half golden retriever and half white German shepherd. She was born in Tennessee in 1982 and died in Colorado in 1996. This is the story of our life together.
I had wanted to write this book for a few years before Jesse died, but never took the time. Four years after she died, I went back to Ireland on my second horse trek, fell for a handsome Irish fisherman, and just had to go back to see what would happen. I decided that it was the perfect time to write this book. So I did.
I finished this book in 2001 and wrote to some publishers suggesting that it was a marketable story. I received a few responses agreeing with me, but their particular company wasn't geared for this type of book. I was going to keep trying because I thought Jesse should be shared with other dog people.
Around that time, a friend's dog died and I gave him the story to read to cheer him up. He was crazy about it and suggested that it should be a movie. No way. It's a book. I believe he triggered an idea about a movie in my head that completely consumed me and led me to shelving this book. I did make a movie. It's a love story set in the restaurant biz called "Did I Say Thousand Island?"
Now it's time to let Jesse's adventures entertain others too. I hope you enjoy this love story about my silly, yet wonderful friend Jesse. As you will find out, I still don't have another dog...
