"Writing isn't always about just getting the words down or out or even read. It is about pulling from the universe just the right number and combination of words and allowing them to join hands to come to life."
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Residing in New England, I'm a freelance writer who writes on assignment. In a previous life I worked in a corporate environment at a high-tech company, where responsibilities in Corporate Planning, Advanced Technologies, and Infectious Diseases, ranged from program coordination to market studies. Newspaper experience includes straight news and weekly features.

More recently, I've been writing articles and other material on assignment.

I'm the mother of two grown sons and a daughter in college.

When I'm not writing for someone else I write for myself. Writing is my form of playing. Words and punctuation are, to me, like Lego building blocks. I can select any number of different ones, put them together in any number of ways, and discover I have built something that, ideally, has color and is beyond two-dimensional.

My passion is ...

Writing, Education-Related Issues

I know too much about ...

....I don't think people ever too know too much about anything - except, maybe, sadness

My parents always told me ...

"You have a good head. Don't do anything to muck it up."

My childhood ambition ...

To be a mother, have a "business" job, and wear nice outfits to work

My favorite memory ...

Three favorite memories - Being handed each of my three, healthy babies

Why I write ...

Writing is a good way to use leisure time, and writing keeps a mind active.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Non-fiction and Reference Books/News Programs, Boston Legal, Sitcoms/Talk Radio, Classical Music, My Personal MP3 Playlist (which contains "all the best songs ever recorded")

My first job ...

"Non-Official:" Errands for neighbors, babysitting "Official:" Supermarket cashier

My best moment ...

May be yet to come

My inspiration ...

My Children, The Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, and Anne Sullivan

Politics, News & Issues > US Politics (Other) Will the US still exist as a country in 100 years?

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Our nation will always have its pessimists, incapable of imagining a bright future. It will always have its enemies, foreign and domestic, who hope the United States will not or cannot survive as a nation. There will always even be people who are neither pessimists nor enemies, but who have resentment and/or distrust of success, wealth, and achievement. These people, too, will not want to believe that the United States, as a nation, will or can survive.

I, on the other hand, am not among any of the aforementioned types of people. I believe the United States, as a nation, will not onl...

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