: About Me

My passion is ...

writing, nature, politics, interior design

I know too much about ...

HUD housing

My parents always told me ...

I could be anything I wanted to be

My childhood ambition ...

journalist, oceanographer, scientific research

My favorite memory ...

the sight of towering trees, fragrance of crab apple blossoms, daffodils and wisteria, on our property when I was a girl

Why I write ...

otherwise I'd implode

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

C-Span2 Book TV, Animal Dreams by Kingsolver

My first job ...

file clerk for Hotpoint

My best moment ...

Telling the Georgia Tech student at the copy machine after he said if women wanted equal rights, give it to them, that it wasn't his to give

My inspiration ...

beauty in any form; a final result of good, after a long haul; Helen Thomas and Molly Ivins

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: The best things in life are free defined

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A fortune cookie slip once was printed "Life is the greatest bargain. You get it for free." It so wholly captured me that I taped it to the side of my sliding wooden lattice closet door. But in life, anyone can step outdoors and see the sky. Anyone can watch the colors change at sunrise and sunset. Anyone listening outside cities can hear the twitters, tweeps, chirps and warbles of birds we must search to see. Everything in nature can be explored. For settling in the chest, one can walk a beach hearing and feeling high tide, or climb down a riverbank and sit on a boulder hearing the water ...

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