: About Me

Rearranging the misaligned; clearing out the cobwebs that the family leaves behind. If I may quote Anne Sexton: " A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind".

Writing is my hobby, and my salvation.It has been throughout my entire life. Getting things out of my system is a necessity, like water and air. When I see things as separate entities and at a distance they become easier to understand. Writing puts my life at a safe distance.It becomes something for me to look at, analyze and process. Only then can I put things in their proper place. It's my way of control. I have a problem with control. Too much one way and not enough in another.

I have my own rhythm when I write and humor is by far the secret to getting through each sentence. I write until I get it right.

Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent, and to protect me from the not so innocent.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Life goes by too fast

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The ravages of my current lifestyle is taking a toll, if it hasn't already. While waiting for the right time to do the things that make life fun or interesting a boredom has set deep within my bones causing a weight that's becoming harder and harder to carry. The lifestyle? Well, the Long Island wife and mother. The worker at the local nursery school. The life of a woman who's days consist of getting up in the morning to do the same thing she did the day before and the day before that. The days pass like generations, one overlapping the other where the resemblance is uncanny because the fe...

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