: About Me

I am one of those nerds who loved reading before I was walking, and who fell in love with writing, drawing and painting shortly thereafter. As I child I spent a lot of time alone in my room with books, pens and paper, imagining I was Anne of Green Gables, lost in innumerable daydreams and fantasies which may have "impaired" my social abilities later on in life, but ultimately made me more self aware and confident than many of my peers. I married too early, divorced too late and made a heck of a lot of mistakes as I reached adulthood. I am impetuous, constantly changing my mind and ever evolving, often jumping into things headfirst. I leap before I look at my life more often than not, and I am ever eager and determined to find the meaning behind it all. Writing and art have always been my constants, encouraging me to dig deeper to find the back story to everyone and everything, and always imagine "what if?" As of yet I have no education beyond high school, but rather, a Master's degree's worth of information from inadvertently enrolling in the school of hard knocks. I had written my first novel length manuscript by the time I was eighteen, and have written two more since then. My focus now is on becoming a published novelist in the tradition of other authors who wrote from life experience and a deep seated need to try and make the world see things their way, if only for a few moments. I seek to prove that the thoughts and life experiences of a small town girl, are not always to be immediately dismissed. There is always more to anyone, than what meets the viewer's eye.

My passion is ...

cakes and pies, new pens, fresh notebooks...Oh, and truthfullness, integrity and knowledge. I am determined to know it ALL someday.

I know too much about ...

Marilyn Monroe, cakes and pies, cosmetics and fashion

My parents always told me ...

Have another piece of cake! And you can achieve whatever you set your mind to. As long as it doesn't cost us a lot of money.

My childhood ambition ...

To be shorter, and to wear glasses. One out of two ain't bad!

My favorite memory ...

Family roadtrips from Iowa to Texas, lots of scribbled in notebooks, shoestring potatos and Pop-Tarts involved.

Why I write ...

I get physically ill if I contain my thoughts in my head.I can only be cured by vomitting through by pens or computer.

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

Slaughterhouse5, The White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, Sia

My first job ...

Receptionist at a beauty salon. It was a fertile grounds for impregnating the imagination, but I do NOT reccommend it to anyone else.

My best moment ...

Seeing my unborn child on ultrasound for the first time. Finishing the first draft of my first manuscript.

My inspiration ...

All the people who have things to say, but don't know how to say them. People who become old and feel that they have wasted their lives on trivial pursuits(not the game, that game rocks my socks off.)

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Dark poems

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Sparrow Traverse the ruins of fairy tales From way back and Once upon a time, To see footprints filled in By the sand while Idealizing saccharine dreams. Sailing through the sublime, Time is a contortionist And illusion is his strength. Burning the candle in the hour glass And sweeping the scythe of death As he dangles a child from his staff. In a corner A closet Locked in wretched darkness Under a rainbow sheet that Smells of an eleven year old, There is no escape for innocence. The sparrow is in the bag, Grounded before she ever took First flight.

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