: About Me

I am a successful financial and budget analyst with an agency of the federal government. I execute an organizational budget in excess of 3.5 million dollars each fiscal year. I am a veteran of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and I served in the military both stateside and abroad.

I graduated from Longwood College with a BS in Earth Science and a minor in Geography. Later, as a single parent of two, I returned to school and successfully completed a course of study through the Evening Law Division at Georgetown University's Law School with a concentration in Acquisition, Fiscal, and Contract law at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

It has been said that writing is my "true" talent and that I have not been using it. I like to capture what I have seen with my eyes, put words to the paper, and inform others. I love to write.

I hope that you enjoy my writing now and that I can help others to realize their potential for writing, as well as writing to my greatest potential. I look forward to the many occasions to write that lie ahead.

Sincere regards,
K.D. Saffron

Please feel free to contact me via the following email address: lglegli@aol.com

My passion is ...

living, writing, and knitting

I know too much about ...

kids

My parents always told me ...

to act my age, then I said what age do you want me to act?

My childhood ambition ...

was to teach and have 5 kids

My favorite memory ...

was when each of my children became b'nai mitzvah

Why I write ...

Is to express what I'm thinking to the world.

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

I'm reading "The Body Farm" ,listening to romantic jazz and watching 48 Hours.

My first job ...

Was priming tobacco and selling pottery.

My best moment ...

When I became a Mother.

My inspiration ...

My children.

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Living with a stigma in society

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Life is rarely fair and for society's mentally ill citizens, life is unbearable. The long held stigma for people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disease follows them as they continue to survive a world that no one cares enough to enter or to change. These unfortunate people are afflicted with a diseases that society rejects immediately. Society has no tolerance for them or their illness, and historically their own families have rejected them. As well, many families still "hide them away" in undisclosed mental institutions where unthinkable human rights violations ca...

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