About Me!
Hello! My name is Tracy (Trace) Sult–. My mission is to create a happier world. Helping those who are in times of struggle. On this website I would be going over my families journeys, sharing other’s stories, and also helping you get through yours!
I try to find the funnies in all aspects of my life.It’s the positive that keeps me going.It’s the negative that can tear me down.It’s my goals that are achieved.
Life is funny; what else is there to say? A lot. Life’s not easy. It will destroy your happy—only if you let it though; only if you do not breathe; only if you choose to give up—keep moving; keep breathing; keep “Finding the Funny” by absorbing the positive and realizing your blessings. There are many bumps in the road and mountains to climb for each of us. We each experience success, trauma, death, pain, joy, laughter, beauty, ugly and so much more throughout our entire life’s journey. In my experience, the ‘funnies’ get me through the good times with joy and the rough times with a fresh breath of life. It is living in the positive.
My experience? My life’s journey is my experience. School of Hard Knocks as some call it. I am the person who has climbed the toughest mountains of life, as well as
experienced the exhilaration at the top of those same mountains where one can
exhale with adrenaline running through their blood, breathe deeply, and see the beauty of one’s successes and triumphs. I then slid down those mountains passing the aroma of flowers, got splattered with bird droppings, slammed by a
few rocks, met a few bears, fought poisonous serpents, passed through a hot
spring, picked up a few parasitic hitch hikers, got covered in mud and landed
facing up at the blue sky with a rainbow arching over me. Having the ability to
see the world beyond the scenery in front of me through the “funny glasses”, I have been able to experience a laugh through tears, experience the beauty of a rainbow in a storm, catch a rock with my heart, see the beauty in the ugly, and taste the pie in the mud.
Want to find the funny? Want to live in the positive? Want to realize your blessings? Stop taking every fragile moment of your life so seriously. Take time to breathe, to smile, to see beyond the pain, to see beyond the fear. Not that simple? Read the short stories of life. You will see I have faced many pitfalls, sadness, bullying, abuse, trauma — just like you. I still do. See, it has not been that simple for me either. However, it is only when I lay my fears to the side, breathe deeply, and exhale slowly, do I finally “Find the Funny”. I am getting through life one funny at a time and sometimes more, if I am feeling ambitious.
As you read the experiences I share of my life, I hope you are able to feel how I
find the funny in all of those seemingly difficult situations, so you may also enjoy the blessing of “Finding the Funny” in your own life. If you can breathe deeply, you can feel it, and you will find it. Get your “funny glasses,” put them on, and start living your life to its fullest.
Want to know more about me?
- My name is Trace.
- I was born on Friday the 13 th at 12:56 p.m. and just 4 minutes before my mom’s birthday.
- Blessed beyond belief.
- I have 3 children – a daughter born in 1988 and two boys born in 2004 and 2008.
- I was a single parent to my daughter (with no child support) until I met and
married my husband. He adopted our daughter when she was 10 years old. - I spent my high school years in an abusive relationship. I have no explanation of why I put myself through such torment. I survived.
- I helped raise two nephews – born in 1986 and 1987. They are like sons to me.
- I lost my dear father to lung cancer when I was 34 years old.
- I found someone I love deeply overdosed on heroin. Not sure how he lived, but
he did. - I love life and all it has to offer.
- Belly laughs are my favorite.
- Movie popcorn is so delicious—I am known to go to the movie theatre only to
pickup popcorn and bring it home to eat. Sometimes I even share it. - Hiking is one of my favorite past times.
- My daughter is a nurse.
- I love children.
- I pray.
- I was raised with mostly boys.
- I have three brothers; no sisters.
- There were
mostly boys on our street when I was growing up. - Obtained my college degree at the age of 50.
- It has been said, “Tracy you are one tenacious person.”
- Jesus is my counselor.
- My circle is small.
- I often think I am that person one meets and thinks, “Annoying.”
- My husband and I adopted our two great nephews.
- I am usually calm.
- I believe – “Right’s Right and Wrong’s Wrong.”
- I have never tolerated bullying well.
- I was an introvert in high school.
- I work very hard to be an extrovert.
- Took me 46 years to find a four-leaf clover. My son found one at the age of 5.
- My husband lived with heart failure for approximately 10 years, and he had a
heart transplant at the age of 34, just two years after my father died. I still
remember, approximately a week after surgery, he looked at me and whispered,
“I felt it. I felt it beating today.” He then took my hand and laid it on his chest, so
I could feel the beating miracle of his new heart. - My husband had a second heart transplant on Christmas Day 2017.
- My mom tells me when I was a small child sitting on my dad’s lap, I looked up at him and studying his face, I said, “Daddy you uggee.” I was holding my daughter in my lap when she was 3 years old, and she looked up at me and said, “Mommy, you uggee.” And, of course, this was in front of my mother, who had a second belly laugh. What goes around comes around.
- I enjoy watching people.
- I forgive easily.
- I believe in a smile.
- I love people.
- A close friend of mine tells me all the time, “’Trace,’ you’re a survivor.” That I am.