: About Me

I am an high school English teacher as well as an amateur writer and artist. I live in San Diego County with my husband and two sons. . I would like to one day publish my memoirs into a collection, so I would appreciate feedback on how to make my stories clearer and more enjoyable and thought-provoking. I want my readers to learn from my stories and see life from a slightly different perspective.

My passion is ...

anything of my current obsession

I know too much about ...

neuropsychopharmakology

My parents always told me ...

I need to slow down

My childhood ambition ...

to read and write

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my child

Why I write ...

to understand

My inspiration ...

God-as he is the creator of all things I try to recreate

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Growing up

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She was my best friend from third grade through sixth. I wanted to be her because she had nicer clothes and fewer rules to abide by. She got to stay up until 10:30 on school nights when I had to go to bed at 8. She got to watch rated R movies and I was limited to PG. She started puberty before me. I remember how jealous I felt standing in the girls' restroom at Preston Elementary School, Erica lifting her salmon-colored sweater, exposing her turquoise training bra with two swollen nipples pushing out against the surface of the cotton material, pointing at me as if I were the only one who h...

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