: About Me

My passion is ...

my son, "armchair (well, styling chair) psychology", writing, learning, music.

I know too much about ...

nothing.

My parents always told me ...

I had no common sense.

My childhood ambition ...

to play French horn professionally.

My favorite memory ...

when I remember I'll let you know.

Why I write ...

"If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said, by me. We each have to say it, to say it in our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try." ~Madeleine L'Engle

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

my words/my monitor/silence.

My first job ...

fending off hot-out-of-jail parolees as a 15-year-old waitress at WAFFLE HOUSE. Eewww.

My best moment ...

I try for one every day.

My inspiration ...

everything around me.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Summer

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Reflections: Summer There is something magical, even ethereal, about the sweet, heady scent that lingers on a summer night and brings me back to my first love affair. Even now, 25 years later, I can step outside and take a deep breath in. My eyes close and I sit to steady myself. I realize I'm experiencing comfort scents - the grass is freshly cut, the lavendar and honeysuckle grow wild along the fence - and a little smile forms on my lips and in my eyes. Suddenly I'm a teenager again. My senses are heightened. I can almost hear a crackle in the air from pure electricity. I'm 14 when Nick'...

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