It's damn hard to squeeze 56 years of living and life into a small square and expect to be pleased by what's been written. However, at least it's writing and writing, writing, writing, is my passion.

I remember my first attempt at authoring. I was in second grade and as a Brownie, was part of the group opening the annual Girl Scout Christmas Pageant. We were given a typically boring holiday play in which to display our acting talents. Meryl Streep couldn't have made this mess into anything remotely festive, so I took it upon myself to edit it. Sister AnnaBelle took it upon herself to fire me, rolling her eyes at my change from Macaroni Jewelry box to sparkly, shiny pasta container. In retrospect, I should have asked why three kings would put their gifts into something as cheesy as a macaroni jewelry box. But none of this mattered because I was hooked.

I've written something almost every day since, sometimes just a fascinating grocery list. I've been published in a pretty prestigious magazine and won several writing awards, never earning enough money to quit my day job as a child psychologist however. In fact, my 20 year career as a psychologist to L.A. street kids, primarily gangsters has given me plenty of fodder for a couple of books and film scripts.

I am disabled now at a relatively young age so I'm hoping to scale down the projects and take pleasure in sharing what I can create with all of you.

I currently live alone with my French Bulldog (ssssh! don't tell her she's a dog. She doesn't know she's been adopted.) but will moving much closer to my wondrous daughter and her husband. The plan is to move away from the evils that plague L.A. today, and into the beauty of the North, with its healing Redwood Forests and rugged Pacific Coast. I can't think of a more magical setting for putting pen to paper.

If I've bored you look at the bright side, this square could only hold so much blah, blah, blahing. I look forward to reading my fellow author's submissions and submitting my own for your perusal.
Shari

My passion is ...

my daughter, son in law, writing about them and anything that embraces and celebrates the universe in which we live.

I know too much about ...

Everything. Ask anybody.

My parents always told me ...

You're in school now. You will wear underpants.

My childhood ambition ...

To write the world's greatest play about macaroni jewelry boxes

My favorite memory ...

When I wrote the world's greatest play about macaroni Jewelry boxes.

Why I write ...

I can never remember not writing. However, when my husband was left brain injured and severely disabled by a drunk driver, I did not write for two years. It was after his suicide that I wrote an article for a major magazine about this particular journey. When they published me I knew I'd rediscovered a forum in which to put the emotions which had compiled into a cess pool. As an illness progressed later, I resorted more to writing as a release and because I can still write and it isn't awful

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

Talk Radio, passionate and off the wall..I finished all the "Wicked" authored books and loved most, and some documentary on tv

My first job ...

cleaning the glass in a bakery for twenty five cents an hour. My dad paid slave wages.

My best moment ...

When they put my adored and precious daughter in my arms thirty three years ago and said,"You have a daughter and she's perfect". She was.

My inspiration ...

see above

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Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a place not so far away, lived a family so crazy that the oldest daughter once remarked, "I can't do the ancestry thing. My family tree is so full of crazy folks that if you stand under it long enough some nut is going to fall off and smack you in the head." I am that daughter.

If this heritage weren't enough to transcend, I was the stereotypical geek. Even back in the day there was a certain criteria for being popular. In my small town in Colorado, a short, skinny, red haired, freckled faced, Jew in the midst of statuesque Catholic Italians and ...

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