: About Me

Being like the little boy who takes the trucks apart to see how they work is me. I so enjoy learning and doing that I have tried job after job and received many licenses for cosmetology, real estate, insurance services, taken all the continuing education credits for each one.

I am a wife, mother and grandmother, my family means everything to me. My husband and children and grandson whom we raised are all veterans of our country's military services and I am so proud of them.

Being empty nesters, our black lab named Jezebel rules the house!

There is not enough time in the day to do all we would like to do!

My passion is ...

That we all realize the price that was paid for our freedom.

I know too much about ...

Studying for the real estate exams.

My parents always told me ...

Hold your head up, stand tall, know that you are not better than anyone else, but you are just as good!

My childhood ambition ...

To be a secretary.

My favorite memory ...

Growing up in our old house next to the clear waters of our river.

Why I write ...

I write to express how I feel about life.

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

I am reading the "Healing Oils of the Bible."

My first job ...

Secretary at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

My best moment ...

I have so many best moments. That is why I write.

My inspiration ...

Inspiration comes from looking for it.

Pets & Animals > Pet Ownership Which makes a better pet: A dog or a cat?

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Through the course of a lifetime and knowing the capacity one has for loving another being, and although cats are very wonderful, when it came down to deciding which makes a better pet I have got to say the dog does. I would have to sit for quite a long time and name all the dogs my family had while I was growing up, and you know what? Every one of them had a special trait and a special way of making me feel good about myself. Talk about "under dogs," each dog we had was a cast off by someone not wanting them. I think that is one of the reasons I always feel drawn to helping to make a pers...

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