: About Me

I am 30 years old, I have three girls and one boy. I have been married for 11 years come July 3rd.

i am a criminal justice major. I hope to become a Crime Scene investigator some day.

I love my family and I enjoy caring for them.

I love to sing, going to church, writing poems and just being alive.

My passion is ...

loving my husband and raising my children and writing my poetry

I know too much about ...

broken relationships

My parents always told me ...

to respect myself and others will do the same

My childhood ambition ...

was to meet a good man, marry and have a wealthy future

My favorite memory ...

is of my grandmother who has passed away, seeing her laugh

Why I write ...

because it calms me, it defines me, I am able to express myself more vividly

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

I am reading a VC Andrews book, and listening to gospel music

My first job ...

was taking orders at Hardees

My best moment ...

was getting married and having my children

My inspiration ...

my mother, children, family, and friends

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Dinner with the in-laws

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Our last Dinner Two days before the dreaded dinner that had been tradition for as long as I have been married into the family. My husband Trey insisted on attending, even though he knows that by the end of the evening I will be the blunt of his families jokes and at least three fights will break out. My name is MaShawn Bentley a succesful lawyer in upscale New York. You would think that because of my background this family would love me, not the case at all. I met Trey three years ago at a convention for lawyers and their assistants. When I saw this man, I tell you the world stopped turnin...

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