: About Me

BACKGROUND
Harriette Schwartz is a native New Yorker from the Bronx. She spent many years living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Harriette married and had her daughter Merelle in 1986. She lived and worked there until 1990. Since then, Harriette and her daughter have been residents of Southern California.

WORK HISTORY

Harriette Schwartz is native New Yorker who now resides in Southern California. She served as a Special Events reporter for Radio Free Europe in New York and worked for many years in the entertainment industry. She is a lifelong author and writer of poems, articles and books who now works on various freelance writing projects for others as well as her own.

Harriette's writing began with creating and illustrating her own greeting cards. She was blessed early on with the skill to put on paper what she sees in her mind and feels in her heart. Over the years the skill evolved into the authoring of poetry, articles and books. An internet aficionado since the mid-1990's, Ms. Schwartz has long been known in cyberspace as HJSWritergal. It was a natural progression to use the information superhighway as a venue for her many works. Harriette has been virtually published online at various sites including HELIUM and SEEKER MAGAZINE. Her work has also been spotlight-featured several times on EONS. Some stories that have been featured on these sites: CHRONIC IS 100% OF THE TIME, ROMANCE CYBERSTYLE, and DYSFUNCTIONAL IS NORMAL. Her articles which have appeared in print in both the magazine and subsequent book BACK IN THE BRONX are: A MISSING PERSON OR NOT A MISSING PERSON and THE SEDGWICK PROJECTS. Her Poem, REACH FOR YOUR RAINBOW is in print publication in the magazine, VISIONS ANTHOLOGY. MILTON SWADE COUNTS is a children's counting book Ms. Schwartz wrote and illustrated. Other books by the author include POETRY AND MUSES OF AN ORIGINAL BABYBOOMER, THE BABYBOOMERS TIME MACHINE and ADULT SILLY STUFF. Harriette runs a successful online social community for Baby Boomers called Boomerville USA. You can also look for her as HJSWritergal on Twitter.com as well.

Harriette co-authored the book, LOST PALLIES (Amazon.com). It is a collection of afterlife contact short stories, all based true occurrences. Her latest work, THE BETHEL BASH:WOODSTOCK 1969 an ebook out for the 40th anniversary of the event, takes the reader back through words and original photos. Ms. Schwartz is also a contributing author/photographer in the book WOODSTOCK, PEACE MUSIC AND MEMORIES by Brad Littleproud and Joanne Hague.

My passion is ...

NEVER to fit into any boxes, but to have them custom made to fit me.

I know too much about ...

Too many things and not enough about just one.

My parents always told me ...

To be positive and upbeat.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a writer

My favorite memory ...

Going to Palisades Park with my family. Dad would always spend far too much money just to win some stuffed animal, more than it was worth. But my sisters and I loved him for it and glady shared the thing, whatever it was!

Why I write ...

Because I always have something to say.

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

Lots of Terri Gerittson and Lawrence Sanders, Any Law and Order, Ugly Betty, Medium, ER, Desperate Housewives or Grey's Anatomy. Any Barbra Streisand,my personally mixed R&R compilations and Tony Bennett Duets

My first job ...

As a sales clerk in a women's fashion boutique

My best moment ...

Giving birth to my daughter

My inspiration ...

The skill to speak my heart and mind on the written page

Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History History of the JFK assassination

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43 Years Ago Today JFK November 22, 2006 I find it astonishing that I was just 13 and home sick from school 43 years ago today. Even more astonishing is the fact that I remember being home sick from school. That was not so unusual. I am now 56 and this memory is not at all dim because it is forever tied to an event I shall never forget being there to witness. The happenings of that Friday and the following days still burn so brightly in my brain. So much in our world was changed by that tragic event. Though I was just becoming a teenager, I was a JFK fan as was most of the country. He was ...

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