: About Me

My passion is ...

Life, writing, food

I know too much about ...

Rosie the Riviter

My parents always told me ...

To be a leader

My childhood ambition ...

writer or singer or songwriter

Why I write ...

because it's fun!

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

(reading) Hemingway, (watching) Lifetime (listening to) Kate Nash

My first job ...

A library worker; I was fired/quit in 3 wks bc I hated my boss and she didn't think I shelved quickly enough.

My best moment ...

Metting Tim O'Brien!

My inspiration ...

knowing that maybe, if I can improve me craft and tell a good story, I can inspire some one how Louise May, Tim O'Brien and other greats have inspired me.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Relationships

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Why does it happen this way? Why do I make mistakes? And then my relationships end with every word my mouth makes. Why does my heart mean to go bold? But instead I seem so cold And there's a sudden shift in my world. I fail, sometimes I think, time and again. I seem to fail out of pleasure It seems I love to hurt my friends. But inside I slowly die, Slowly wonder why, I can't make things better Or cease things from happening altogether. Complications swirl all around my head, From conversations better left unsaid, From words spoken from a mind made of lead, From a heart that shrivels up de...

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