: About Me

I am a work-at-home, homeschooling mom. I have two biological adult children, three adult step-children, and adopted adult child, and a grandson I a am raising. My primary writing focus is songwriting (Christian and Country). For 'fun' I quilt and scrapbook.

My passion is ...

Songwriting, Family, Jesus (not in this order!)

I know too much about ...

How to raise kids!

My parents always told me ...

Honor the elderly...it may be your last year with them

My childhood ambition ...

Teaching...or to become a Nun

My favorite memory ...

TWO: 1) Having a song being held with Randy Travis' manager, 2) All the days when my children were young

Why I write ...

Because I MUST! Mostly it's songwriting, but articles and essays are my second favorite

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

I'm so trying to catch up on LOST...Season 4, here I come!

My first job ...

Key Shop Manager at Sears

My best moment ...

Committing to the Lord, Jesus

My inspiration ...

All life can show me, tempered by a spiritual component

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Should government candidates be required to hold press conferences and answer questions from the media and the public?

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Having lived in the USA my entire life, enjoying the inherent freedoms that go along with citizenship here, I find that the easy answer to this question is, "Yes." Citizens have a right to access those who would represent their interest in government; consequently, press conferences and other public forums (such as Townhall Meetings) are the obvious method for such access. Politicians (aka, Public Servants, paid by the Public) need to have some guidelines on how they present their platform. It seems completely unbalanced when a candidate is allowed to raise several million private-sector d...

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