: About Me

R. S. Vreelalnd is an educator in New Jersey who spends her free time tickling the keyboard with her insightful, profound, and often humerous antics on a wide variety of subject matters. She has concentrated interests in Religions and Philsophy, Education, and Creative Writing.

Rhoda's largest literary influences include: C. S. Lewis, Ravi Zacharia, Sir Thomas More, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Francis Bacon, Tolken, and many other classics.

It may be interesting to note that Rhoda was left legally blind after a traumatic battle with cancer at 16. While some would consider this an obstacle in life, she has used her enhanced hearing and love of communication to futher enhance her use of words. Her writing often contains imagery of a unique sensory-style. And if read properly, one can also hear a hint of her Southern-slang from the foothills of the Uwharrie mountains where she grew up seep through the text as it is read.

My passion is ...

exploring the mechanisms that make life tick.

I know too much about ...

cognitive development.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a teacher.

My favorite memory ...

a special sunset.

Why I write ...

to be understood.

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

Crime and Punishment, Ravi Zacharias Theological Forums

My first job ...

teacher

My best moment ...

being loved.

My inspiration ...

my faith.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Struggle in life

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Silent Conversation There was a silent conversation Between my past and me; It agreed to keep its secrets, I agreed to let it be. And in this coexistence Of blissful harmony Hours passed to days and years In sweet simplicity. Until the wretched afternoon That one of us betrayed. Who it was and how it was Neither of us would say. It started with a knocking In the chambers of the mind And grew into a pounding Of a resonating kind. At last I could not bear it. In surrendering, I cried, "Who are you that beats viciously To claim a place inside?" The voice, it was most mournful. The voice, it w...

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