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Living outside Dallas but probably not forever, I am by nature a wanderer with a lust for new things and places. Texas is my heart home, it hasn't been my only home having over the years lived for a time in many places including Seattle, Richmond, VA, Munich, Singapore. I suspect that there are more moves in the future and think that eventually I will land on an island somewhere with white sands and rolling waves to sooth my restless spirit.

I share my space with a musician husband, two dogs, four cats, and a Cockatoo named Merlin. We live somewhat peacefully together most of the time although it can be at times quite loud. The noise is joyful and fun with drums, keyboards, bass, squawking birds, and barking dogs who at times try to sing with the music of life and sirens.

Still working in my chosen field of consulting and currently toying with the idea that it is finally time to branch out to independence after twenty plus years as a slave to the corporate world and the politics of working for someone else. My next major goal will be to achieve my Ph.D in Social Anthropology so that I can teach at a university level and write full time. Some day when time and energy allows! My philosophy is that it is never to late to learn and grow, I hope to prove this soon.

My passion is ...

My family, great (cheap wine), books, travel, and Project Management

I know too much about ...

My work and to little else

My parents always told me ...

Be more responsible, settle down, find a good man

My childhood ambition ...

Ballet ... to dance

My favorite memory ...

The day I woke up unexpectedly still alive

Why I write ...

To learn to express myself, finally

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

Saints, Atlas Shrugged (9th time), Law & Order, Closer, Ella

My first job ...

Rather not say

My best moment ...

Moving again...back to Texas

My inspiration ...

My friends and family who lift me up and tell me I can

Creative Writing > Memoirs My second chance at life: True stories about facing death

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My second chance was not an act of nature but an act of cruel violence so terrible and so meaningless even today my heart and my mind have difficulty reconciling it. My story is hard for me to tell even sixteen years later I am reminded of just how ephemeral life can be and how vulnerable I am. But that day I didn't know that my life was about to change forever. Looking back, I believe I had been preparing all my life to survive this single night. I didn't know that in the space two hours and with three bullets, everything in my world would change forever.

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