: About Me

So much to say...
Shy, brave, extroverted, introverted, sad, happy, creative, dry, selfless, selfish, loving, needing to be loved. Affectionate, distant....

My best friend rests within the tattered journal. Between the well worn pages, I open up my soul to her. She receives my sudden bursts of anger, my bouts of melancholy and those emotions that eagerly leave my heart  and race down to my fingertips.
The bright red crayon that strikes the page, releasing anger, the blue-black  ink of my broken heart, the yellow orange sun that shines brightly on the rough rice paper all reflect the person that I was, the person that I am, and the person I will be...
Accepted by the friend that waits within the pages of my journal.

Currently working on the biography of black tennis great Lendward Simpson. Just had my first in my children's book series published, Olivia, the adventures of a firefly, and two of my poems appear in the newly released Kaleidoscope, available at Barnes and Noble.com  Writing and painting....life is good.

My passion is ...

words, prose, life and living it to the fullest

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

the opposite of what I needed to know

My childhood ambition ...

to write

My favorite memory ...

my father who was suffering with dementia...telling me he wished he "had married me 50 years ago" Even through the confusion, he recalled the love.

Why I write ...

I don't know..To survive, I imagine

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

Everything and anything

My first job ...

candy salesperson

My best moment ...

my first kiss

My inspiration ...

Life

Arts & Humanities > Artists & Artwork The life story of Rembrandt

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606 in Leiden, Netherlands. He was the ninth child of well-to-do parents, his father was a miller and his mother was the daughter of a baker. Rembrandt is considered to be one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He attended the Latin School and the University of Leiden. He was drawn to painting and soon became apprentice to a Dutch history painter for three years, followed by a brief, but beneficial apprenticeship under famous Dutch painter Pieter Lastman. In 1625 Rembrandt opened a studio and in 1627 he began taking studen...

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