: About Me

I am a mother writer and comic artist. I working on my degree, which I'm pretty sure will come out to be a dual major of Animation and Cultural Anthropology.

I am the author of several books, won awards for cover art, and drawn manga. This is really my direction in life. Stories are the best!

I have raised two talented daughters, traipsed around the world, and hope to have many more adventures.

My passion is ...

stories!

I know too much about ...

writing, depression, watchin kids grow up, thinking about how to date... again

My parents always told me ...

Parents? What parents?

My childhood ambition ...

Be a novelist

My favorite memory ...

discovering copic markers, getting my copy of Kai Stubborn from the publisher

Why I write ...

because I must, can't sleep well if I don't.. mental health gets pawned, or so

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

Bleach

My first job ...

um... Wife

My best moment ...

Is yet to come :)

My inspiration ...

Nature, truth, hope, great anime... Hellsing Ultimate!

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Hope

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How to Have Hope Can not is a terribly powerful feeling, oppressive and smothering. Running up against the wall of fear and resistance, fenced in by what we will not, can not, or should not do, the world becomes a smaller place. I have a job that pays me a lot of money. More money than I've ever made before. It has a lot of can nots that go with it. I can not dye my hair pink, which I desperately want to do. I can not have music at work. I currently do not have friends at work. It's corporate the way the ground is hard. I have some dreams too. I want to draw comics and sell copies of my bo...

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