: About Me

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My passion is ...

words

I know too much about ...

Bluebell ice cream

My parents always told me ...

My mom is a psychologist. There was a lot of mind-tricking going on. They talked a lot about making choices and natural consequences. I've never been grounded and I never had a curfew. I was a pretty high anxiety kid so the threat of natural consequences worked pretty well for me.

My childhood ambition ...

To tell stories for adoring crowds.

My favorite memory ...

Staying up all night talking with this guy who totally blew my mind. I went straight to work and told my mom I was going to have his babies. No babies yet but husband and wife is a pretty good start.

Why I write ...

I write to make sense of people and things around me and make sense of what's going on within me, and because I feel most alive when telling stories.

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

Mostly watching stuff that is going to give me brain rot. Currently intrigued by blog culture, especially pepl hoo wrt n the nw shthnd-these are harder to read than just spelling the whole words out.

My first job ...

babysitting little people, camp counselor

My best moment ...

marrying my hubby.

My inspiration ...

people who find a way to do what they love for a living.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Why I support the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) strike

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If I hear one more person mention how spoiled and selfish the writer's are, and how they shouldn't be striking, I am seriously going to flip my lid. Are you people jealous that you don't make a writer's salary, which could be 500,000, or 200,000, but is more likely 100,000 or even 60,000? I don't care if writer's are making a million gajillion dollars, I still support the strike, and here's why: On what planet would it be logical for the writers to say, "Hey billionaire executives, I know we came up with all the cool concepts for these shows that are now being bought and played via the Int...

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