I am a mind bursting with creativity, always dolling up plans for the future and oddly enough, finding the channels to actually make them reality. I love to love, I love to travel, I love to spark debate. I am a very opinionated person who is in the midst of learning to develop patience, which is most likely a product of growing up in a large family. I cannot stand conceit, so I abhor writing about myself because I usually feel as if every word of it will be perceived as conceit by others.

My passion is ...

passion.

I know too much about ...

politics, art, history, nutrition, health.

My parents always told me ...

love your neighbor as you love yourself.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be everything: tennis player, writer, singer and actress.

My favorite memory ...

being positively recognized locally as a writer.

Why I write ...

...I adore the English language, I love articulating information in such a way that interests others, and because it is the best creative outlet.

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

Exodus/Fox News/John Coltrane

My first job ...

senior writer and copy editor for a new arts publication in Florida (after beginning as a freelancer 6 months before)

My best moment ...

becoming official editor.

My inspiration ...

people, joys and little pleasures, plans for the future.

Arts & Humanities > Making Art Unleashing creativity by expressing your emotions

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Passion's Palette: The Ingredients of Inspiration

What inspires a painter to paint? What instigates a chef to cook? What compels a sculptor to sculpt? What abstract, unarticulated energy is the force that drives an artisan to create? There's something about that sensual and clandestine authority of one sound, one smell, one touch, one image, or one taste that can wholly arrest the senses. The tangible tinge of a memorable sensation can spontaneously bring about an intangible surge of familiarity, unleashing an unbridled gush of emotions. That unrelentingly appealing and passionately indefi...

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