: About Me

Born and raised in a small town in upstate New York, I relocated to Florida in 1993. I've been writing for personal pleasure for many years, and it's nice to have found Helium as an outlet and an audience. I'm a paralegal by day, married, have three dogs and one cat, and live on the Space Coast of Florida.

My passion is ...

helping animals in need

My parents always told me ...

that I could be anything I ever wanted to be.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a lawyer or a photographic journalist.

My favorite memory ...

3 hour drive to Great Adventure with my best friend, only to find the place closed when we got there.

Why I write ...

need

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

Reading Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope

My first job ...

selling gold jewelry at a flea market

My inspiration ...

my husband, family, and friends

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Choices

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As children, our choices seem pretty limited.  Our parents usually make decisions for us in the form of orders.  I was certainly never given the option to NOT do my homework or to NOT brush my teeth a few times a day.  My mother didn’t look at me when I was seven or ten and say, “Honey, would you like to do your homework tonight or play Atari instead?”  As we grow up, though, we learn that the choices we make eventually carry their consequences.  As a pre-teen, I’d been as annoying as any obnoxious kid could be.  I’d tested the li...

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