title: Happy Heart Journal: BE Real, Laugh & Love
author:  Merrie Lynn Ross 
description: Merrie Lynn Ross- is a multi award-winning filmmaker, writer, actress: Starring in over 35 TV/films from portraying Marion Davis in a 13-hour PBS mini-series, Julie Nixon (president's daughter), Bubbles La Rue on Happy Days to Daytimes Emmy Soap Digest Award winner, as first daytime comedienne, Emma Lutz, on ABCs General Hospital'- entertaining 30 million viewers with her contagious giggle and outrageous antics. Merrie Lynn produced several films: Cult classic, Class of the hit of Cannes Film Festival, winning best picture Academy of Horror and Science Fiction. Bobby Jo and The Outlaw with Lynda Carter and Merrie Lynn playing sisters, roused youth audiences and led to Merrie Lynns character on the Wonder Woman TV pilot. As writer/creator of TV and films: Soap Box Derby Racers Apt.11E, Medicine Woman, Bayou Justice (in pre-production), Foxy Ladies among the many. She directed the Directors Award winning docudrama, Highjacker profiling the foibles being a police officer. She directed 18 films for the LAPD and Burbank police departments, and launched Peoples Action Center PAC for Henry Winkler. She founded MerrieWay Community (non-profit 501 C 3 and collaborated with film industry notables, philanthropists and corporate sponsors to bring arts and ethics back into our schools. She created Morph America and Peace Smarts (solution for bullying) curriculums, honored by White House and President Clinton and recognized by President Bush. W MerrieWays youth anchors participated in the Presidential Summit, with every living President and Oprah Winfrey. Ms. Ross brainchild, Stand For Children rallied 300,000 people at the Lincoln memorial, spearheaded by the Childrens Defense Fund. She coined Morph as a transformation term that is in todays vernacular and was lauded Woman of the Year by Women in Action. Born clairaudient shes a body, mind, spiritual healer, whose humor brings a sense of well being to the many people she works with. After a personal tragedy and discovering a way back to living in purpose, Merrie Lynn is guided to share her healing and life altering recipes. With a contagious joyous energy she proves to be a beacon of light for everyone she meets. Merrie Lynn is an international speaker and group facilitator, founder of MerrieWay Community that provides workshops, from Girl Scouts to at-risk communities. Recipient Gold Coast Film Fests Visionary Award, and WMIFFs Lifetime Achievement Award in Washington, DC.
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  NOW AND THEN AND ALWAYS
  “Powerful. I’ve always loved Melissa Tagg’s stories, but this one is something special. Lyrical, yes.
  Enchanting, of course. But her story about a broken man meeting an equally broken woman and their
  journey to healing touched unexpected places in my heart. An absolutely beautiful, compelling read.” 
  -Susan May Warren, USA Today bestselling, RITA Award-winning author of the Montana
  Marshalls series 
  "Charming! Set in an old bed and breakfast in need of love, Now and Then and Always delights the
  reader with mystery and romance. Tagg continues to set herself apart as a classic romance
  storyteller." 
  -Rachel Hauck, New York Times bestselling author 
  “Melissa Tagg is the kind of writer who makes me fall in love with story every single time I read one
  of her novels. In Now and Then and Always she does it again. Tagg’s writing draws you into the
  pages—into the Storyworld she creates in such a powerful way, threaded through with hum