: About Me

I am a published author in the area of short fiction as well as an award-winning poet. I have extensive experience in writing for the Internet, maintaining blogs, and copywriting.

I have held several interesting jobs in entirely different environments and capacities, from nursing homes and furriers to an insurance company. I have extensive knowledge of medical terminology and insurance issues that was gained from spending more than 20 years in a career that included review of medical bills and managing medical claims.

My personal interests include writing, reading, current events, politics, economics, hockey, and Formula One racing. I am a married mother of two and often find inspiration in seeing the everyday experiences of life from what some might consider to be a unique perspective. I have come to see the human experience as dissimilar enough to be interesting and shared enough to make us interested in stories of others like us.

My passion is ...

I am never dispassionate about anything, I am highly passionate when it comes to the eradication of injustice and the promotion of human rights and freedom.

I know too much about ...

Things that make people roll their eyes when I speak to them.

My parents always told me ...

We're going over the hill to the poorhouse.

My childhood ambition ...

To have my life set to music.

My favorite memory ...

The first time someone read and understood one of my poems

Why I write ...

Because I must? Because I am useless at practical things and prefer to spend my life in abstract conjecture? Because I am not rich and slothful, but poor and slothful? Why does anyone seek creative outlet? It is the soul trying to speak and having no voice, it uses the medium that it finds. For some it is a paintbrush, for others it may be a piece of wood , a hammer and a saw, For the writer, it is words.

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

I only watch reruns on TV, so I won't worry about missing the ending should I fall asleep. I listen to too many kinds of music to name, enough so that I probably have some genre of music in common with nearly everyone on earth. I read the news, I read Helium, I read blogs. I am currently reading a lurid crime novel and Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything". I was reading a romance novel but it got too annoying so I skipped to the end.

My first job ...

I worked in the laundry of a nursing home. It was hard, physical labor that required no brain cells whatsoever. This meant I had all of my brain cells for my own use and it was my most prolific poetry-writing period. I still refer to this as the best job that I ever had.

My best moment ...

I will let you know when it happens.... I hope the best has not already gone by me.

My inspiration ...

My husband, whom I refer to as Svengali, my children whose crises and triumphs often get chronicled on my blog, TS Eliot and ee cummings who taught me what great poetry is

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood 'Super-mom syndrome'

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Have you ever woken up one day and wondered what your kids ever did to deserve you? Or rather, do they deserve better? As my children have migrated from home to preschool, to grade school and beyond, I have had the experience of meeting "accomplished" mothers. These are the mothers who have such a list of credits to their names, it's nearly impossible to imagine how they managed to squeeze in time for pregnancy and birth. I do know one thing, they were probably multi-tasking during labor. These are the supermoms. These mothers have immaculate houses. They make elaborate meals out of vegeta...

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