: About Me

The most important thing I've ever done was have two wonderful boys. They opened a new world to me, a heart and soul world where career is sustaining for food and for shelter but not as an aspiration of something that I must become.

The things that do matter; laughter, happiness, the sun shining on our backs and sno-cones coloring our tongues purple, blue and red at the conclusion of the annual school carnival, the must-attend event that is necessary because it is a marked family feel-good event, a day on the calendar that we know will end with that feeling of love, nostalgia and contentedness.

These boys that I participate in life with, these boys that I guide and direct and hope to help form into fine young men, world-changing men, these boys who opened up the world and made "about me" not just about me, nor just about them. They opened my heart to care about so much more; our world, those less fortunate than we are and those who appear more fortunate.

About me...not again. Ever.

My passion is ...

living authentically, utilizing heart, soul and wit.

I know too much about ...

dysfunction.

My parents always told me ...

their perspective from a tunnel.

My childhood ambition ...

Freedom.

My favorite memory ...

The day my first child saw fireflies.

Why I write ...

It unleashes my soul...

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

Kittens' jangling bells, Kenny Loggins singing my children to sleep.

My first job ...

Ice Cream Parlor

My best moment ...

I revel so many that I wouldn't dare compare.

My inspiration ...

God, my children.

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Tender, raw and open. She walked through the house, trying to attend to daily tasks. Cleaning, shopping, acknowledging and feeding the children; she had to make a conscious effort for everything to be normal, to do the bare minimum, because her instinct told her to stop and let it happen. "Why?." she thought. "The greatest gift that we are given is love. We  use it, abuse it, do not tend it. We expect it to run effortlessly alongside life. It can't. The greatest gift we are given we must put ourselves fully into, to sustain it.  Like a gardener, we must grow it." She would have d...

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