: About Me

I am a freelance writer and a stay-at-home mother of three. My writing career started with a haunting story written in grade 4, that allowed for only 26 sentences, written in alphabetical order. I think it went something like:

All alone. By myself on a lonely highway. Cars racing by me as though I wasn't there. Dread filled me.

And so on...

I was completely hooked after that!

My passion is ...

music

I know too much about ...

the most redundant things anyone would ever need to know!

My parents always told me ...

a stitch in time saves nine!

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a ballerina.

My favorite memory ...

dancing in the Nutcracker Suite at the age of twelve.

Why I write ...

It lets me shut out the outside noise and become immersed.

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

Harry Potter, Wayne Dyer

My first job ...

teaching ballet

My best moment ...

meeting the man who would become my husband.

My inspiration ...

My best friend Deb, she has never given up on dream of being a published novelist.

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) True gardening stories: My most inspiring garden experience

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My love of gardening began when I was a child. Only back then it wouldn't have been considered love. It was more of a deep seeded loathing and contempt. As one of four children of a single mom, my days after school were spent picking thousands of rocks with my siblings. Money wasn't abundant and that meant creating a vegetable garden to help sustain us. Unfortunately the only plot of soil big enough on our new property was riddled with plum size rocks and hard clay earth. So we picked. Everyday. When the rocks were finally gone, we dug that clay and made amendments to the soil. And then we...

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