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About me

A yard sale addict who can't resist other people's books. Always looking for a rare find-a first edition Hemingway, or perhaps a heavy tome on ancient history.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Reading

I know too much about ...

trivia

My parents always told me ...

and told me...and told me...

My childhood ambition ...

Become a writer

My favorite memory ...

My Grandmother, the night I thought she was going to choke me to death in my sleep.

Why I write ...

because, when I sing, people throw stuff at me.

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

books/t.v./music

My first job ...

setting pins in a bowling alley at the tender age of eleven.

My best moment ...

selling my first short story.

My inspiration ...

my folks

Featured article by Jim Thomason

Food & Drink > Cooking (Other) Cooking inexpensively on a student budget: 4 of 35

As you work the cramp out of your writing hand and toss the checkbook on the table, you notice a steady rumbling in the pit of your stomach. Tuition is paid. A semester's worth of books lay on the bed. You have a place to sleep and shower but how are you going to feed the beast growling in your belly on the meager balance recorded in your checkbook? Don't worry. Skip the Big Mac for lunch and the Domino's deluxe pizza for dinner and I will show you how you can eat for a week. And mad kitchen skills are not required. If you can handle a Bunsen burner and read a syllabus, you can work a stov...
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