PEACE, LOVE, JOY, HEALTH & LAUGHTER 2007

Happy Holiday Season To All

May 2007 be filled with love, joy, health and laughter to all of my fans. Let us all strive for the beauty of inner peace and tranquility.

Happy New Year!
Louise Maxwell www.SoulfulEncounters.com

HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING....

This happy holiday season is a special time to say thank you to all my members of SoulfulEncounters.com. Thank you for hanging in with us. We appreciate having all of you join. I wish you all the warmth, peace and happiness during this joyful time.
May 2007 bring all my members peace, love, joy and good health.
From my home to yours....have a nice time!
Louise Maxwell and all my helpers here at www.SoulfulEncounters.com .

Television And SoulfulEncounters!

Wow wee! Tune in, turn up the volume! SoulfulEncounters.com goes on television! For someone who does not like front line attention.....what could I say. I am doing it all for you members..I love you all!
I thought this would be too hard to bare. But, when I started to speak about my SoulfulEncounters disability site and my medically disabled and differently abled members all my words came from my heart and soul. The viewing was shown 6 times that weekend. It aired on my hometown's local station but heh---you know that everyone is welcome to join! If you have not seen me that is okay...If you wish to correspond with me... I am open to that.
I had several other interviews as well for a national Canadian disability magazine. Soulful Encounters is getting coverage. I was also interviewed for a disability magazine in the United States and I start off the New Year with yet another interview from a free lance writer with our local newspaper. This is all good news for the disabled singles. We are getting new members every day. Your soulmate awaits you! If you are single and handicapped or medically disabled....come join us! If you are a member please feel free to give us ideas as we value your input. We would like you to feel part of it.
So, what is next now that all this excitement is behind us!! You will have to tune in.....why not...

Who Would Dare To Attack Angels!

A strange, malicious force is out there. But, the Angels will win! An insidious attack prevents my Sweet Angels their shelter. Soulful Encounters crashes at the same time every night which is peculiar. Noone was around on the weekend to repair its doors and so the disabled singles had to remain outdoors. New members with disabilities try to make their way into SoulfulEncounters.com and are denied access. They are denied the companionship they seek. This weekend seems endless.
Once again, the new features that are in process are halted in order to remedy and fix this problem so that the handicapped are able to once again engage in their search for dating, friendship and companionship.
I stay up until 3 A.M. for days to monitor the situation. I care for my angels and want to protect them. But, the attacks have been plentiful. The online dating scammers have been a menace as well. But, my very nice programmer is as determined as I am to conquer all these assaults.
So, you see....we are a bit tardy with features but Soulful Encounters is more interested in the well being of the Sweet Angels; and, we are trying everything to
prevent them from being bugged by the lowly scammers. It is inconceivable that they would try to scam anyone let alone the disabled!!! How low could one get!
With all these problems, I received numerous emails from my members telling me not to worry and that everything will be fine in the end. It gave me a chance to get to know some of the disabled in a deeper more meaningful way. And, if it had to take SoulfulEncounters to crash for a few days then it is worth it. Once again, my friends are enjoying the comfort of the SoulfulEncounters.com disability community.
Hang in with me and I will tell you more.....Will it be frustrations, will it be joy....

Angels Came To Wipe The Tears Of Frustration!

This week Soulful Encounters has encountered a few ups and downs. Frustrations are still there but I am riding on my Angels' wings. My disabled dating site had the nerve to crash three times this week. My angels have to get into their home. They are counting on me to have the doors of this disability dating site open at all times so that they could feel comfortable to search for companionship, relationships and love. Now my programmer he is a very understanding guy and he knows the urgency that this presents. We have a commitment to uphold here. So, he is working very diligently to fix the problem hopefully for good. It is hard to detect why this is happening. SoulfulEncounters needs its doors open and so I am happy that I am with a reliable computer place that is willing to drop everything else when emergencies arise.
Out of this place of discontent came some more special angels. Some sent me messages wanting to know the reason why they were unable to enter and I got to know a few of them today. One girl with a disability and challenge has her own website and she designs the most beautiful silk flowers. Such skill, such talent. Another angel is a writer. His mind is not handicapped and he writes fiction stories. This is what my site is about ....the mind is not handicapped and the heart is not handicapped either.

So what began as another frustrating day became a blissful one....one that I shall always cherish.

What will the next few days bring to SoulfulEncounters.com?

Pleased To Know You Soulful Encounters

I keep wanting to put off babbling about Soulful Encounters' frustrations. Telling the niceties is so much more fun! Tonight, my mind wanders to my first interview for SoulfulEncounters, the Free dating site for the medically and physically challenged.
My eyes widened as I starred at the email from an editor with our local newspaper. He wanted to speak with me that same day about my disability dating site. As it happened, I had my day lined up before me. I had many things to do and I was going to take my husband for his doctor appointment. He is visually impaired....near blind and unable to drive.
I rang up the number and right from the onset I felt very comfortable with Ian. He asked many questions about Soulful Encounters including how I got the idea to have a disabled dating site for the differently abled. I spontaneously chatted away not realizing that he was conducting an interview. I thought that he would schedule a date for it. However, I think it turned out for the best because my heart spoke for me. I spoke of my work managing medical offices for over 20 years where I met very ill and disabled persons lacking companionship and desiring relationships. Later,I became disabled as well. I spoke of my affinity with disabled persons; having been housebound for 10 years and still unable to do things the way normal persons do. I consider myself differently abled.
Suddenly, in the midst of our conversation he said that he wanted to send a photographer to me right away and this put me in a bit of a panic. But, in the end I decided that I would not change--they could take my picture just as I was. The story was well covered and filled a fairly large space on the front page of the City Section.."Website gives disabled chance to find companionship." My words that I spoke openly were repeated, "Sometimes you can't really explain to a person who is not disabled what you are going through....They have no concept of what it is really like"
When the paper came out..I was too excited to even open the newspaper. That was back in May/06. And, so started on an uphill journey to get the House of Soulful Encounters off the ground....frustrations.. an uphill battle...

Tune in for more----

Sweet Angels Abide in the House of SoulfulEncounters

Well, I was going to tell you about more frustrations with this disabled dating site, SoulfulEncounters.com, but then my mind wandered to more pleasant thoughts, my Sweet Angels. I have been so blessed! Some of my daily e-mails are from these Angels who joined SoulfulEncounters. I remember the excitement when SoulfulEncounters first went live. The Music Man came a playing....yes he did...My very first differently abled member with dystonia and he looked so divine. He was my first Sweet Angel. He became my friend..what more could I ask for? We exchanged emails and I could tell right away that this was no ordinary fellow. He was quick,intelligent and so willing to help so that Soulful Encounters could work up more members. He took it upon himself to distribute SoulfulEncounters flyers. But, more than this he is very musical and plays in a band on the weekends. When my forum goes up he will have a blog of his own and a forum called Chadder's Music Corner. All you music lovers can go in and send him messages. He would love to hear from you.

Tune in to the next episode of either frustrations or to tell you about other sweet angels who SoulfulEncounters has acquired. We like to call them disabled, but, are they? I believe that differently abled is more appropriate.

Merry Go Round Likes The Ride So Why Stop!

Hmm! To think that I loved the Merry Go Round so very long ago. Now the ride is getting bumpy. My mind is even going round and round. I should have known better. When you are told that your disability dating site will be done in a few weeks just add a couple of years onto that.

Okay, Louise slow down. One thing is true; I really like the programmer who is working on my disabled site for singles. He is a good listener and points out what is good about my ideas for my handicapped dating members and what could be improved. He is a honey that is for sure. So, why am I so frustrated? I seem to have a major disability..or weakness...I hate slow when it comes to work or creativity. I think that I have a lesson to learn here. Remember Rome was not built in a day. Yes, but a dating site--I have to house all these souls--the medically disabled and differently abled. Little frustrations are okay but why is my site for dating personals taking so long. It is up live but there are so many features that I am waiting for. At this rate, Rome was probably built with more speed than a simple disabled dating site.

I had asked for a chat room right at the onset but I was persuaded to wait until I had enough members. Then when the chat room went up--it was not quite right and then programmer told me months ago, "I have a surprise for you; nice chat room for you". I am still in anticipation mode. And, I am internally screaming, "Give me realization, pleasssse!!

Tune in for more frustrations to be told....

Souls In Search Of A Home! APlace For The Disabled

Well Hello!
My name is Louise! I thought I had a chaotic life before Soulful Encounters with all my ups and downs with my disability. Try building a website..a place where all the lovely differently abled souls could congregate;a home to call their own. I wanted to have a neat place where disabled singles could have fun, chat, find friends and help if they needed it. It would be a unique disability community. Once the idea hit me, I could not get any rest until I put it into action.

I did not know who to approach or where to go with my plan. I first approached a very nice man that had maintained computers for large companies. He told me that he would be able to help. After six months I only had the main page but he was never progressing beyond that. I had my youngest son look at this failed masterpiece and he dared to voice what I felt. He said, "Oh Mom that is ugly". Hmmm! It did not take him six months to figure that out.

The very next day I shopped around for a nicer spot to house a disabled dating arena. I was sure that my disabled friends were waiting for me to take them in. So I chose a business place because they told me that they could have me up and running in a few weeks. Six months later, it went live but without all the features that I wanted for a disability dating site. However, I did not have members so I did not worry much.

There were so many things to delete, change or add. It has been a learning experience for someone who would not go near a computer 3 or 4 years ago. I had to ask family and friends to join up and pretend that they were my disabled persons trying to log on. We had to see if this dating site was functioning as it should be.
It is one year later and my disability home for the medically disabled and differently abled is still trying to progress.

My days have been full to say the least. One year later and I am still waiting for features to be implemented and finishing touches to be done. I am of the compulsive nature so this waiting was worse than having my physical disability. I thought this would be easy---just assign someone and off you go.

Next time I will tell you about some of my frustrations...

Welcome to the Soulful Encounters Blog!

Soulful Encounters is a free dating website for the medically disabled and differently abled. Our goal is to fill beautiful souls with lasting bliss. Soulful Encounters is run by Louise Maxwell, and features wonderful services such as counselling, life coaching and even a pharmacist on site to answer your questions! Coming soon is a forum with optional personal blogs and an interactive chat!


The purpose of this blog is to chronicle the development of the website...see what it's like to start up a website from scratch! Read about the difficulties involved and witness the progress first-hand. We will also discuss dating tips and pitfalls, disability issues, anything and everything!