: About Me

Ronda Claire is a freelance writer from Illinois, who has been been writing since grade school.

Credits include work as a correspondent for six years for a local daily paper; features and cover stories for a local business magazine, and currently reporter for a local weekly.

She published her first article in Sunshine Magazine.

Ms. Claire has created and published two newsletters for SOHO Entrepreneurs, Self(Star)ter and SOHO News.

My passion is ...

writing, photography, travel (USA)

I know too much about ...

being sad

My parents always told me ...

be honest, work hard

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

meeting 2.7 lb Shamu, a dear Shih Tsu, on my birthday. He is now "mine" and 14 lively pounds.

Why I write ...

to express myself but entertain and (hopefully) help others

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

reading: if it's on the web, I read it right now; watching: TV lol - sitcoms, Dateline, news; listening to: oldies

My first job ...

selling Christmas and All Occasion cards

My best moment ...

when I realized what love felt like

My inspiration ...

"Him" :-) and a more 'earthbound' person. I can't name him but he knows who he is . . .

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Death of a loved one

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As families go, my mom's side was a little closer to each other than my dad's. So when his cousin invited us to her parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary my father readily accepted. He and mom were divorced so it was he, my aunt and I who went along. The party was held in the small town I'd known since birth. We then lived about sixty miles away, but I always enjoyed the drive down there through 'back roads' and cornfields and such. The town was surrounded by farmland and sunsets were incredible with nothing in the way. The main street has grain elevators located next to the Illinois Centr...

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