: About Me

My passion is ...

writing...

I know too much about ...

with the amount of things we can all learn I'll never know TOO much about anything...

My parents always told me ...

to remember people less fortunate than myself

My childhood ambition ...

to see the world and have 6 kids...

My favorite memory ...

listening to my mother explain how much she loved me to my grandmother

Why I write ...

to keep my sanity and to forget that the world is not always fair

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

... reading... Leadership Gold by John C. Maxwell

My first job ...

I was an ambitious waitress for a day before my mother reminded me that I had no transportation to get there and suggested I just do my homework for now :)

My best moment ...

attending a breakfast in my honor for exceptional leadership and serving as a role model to a mentoring program for a corporation

My inspiration ...

people who can smile no matter how much pain I know they must be feeling...

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Imagining a world without mentors

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Sheila watched wide eyed as her second grade teacher bit the eraser off of one of our fellow student's pencils. "You will NOT erase!" As she marched down the aisles, pointing her finger at us we struggled to breathe in this swelteringly hot air in our Baltimore classroom. Our classrooms did not have central air back then and I wondered if it could be the heat that had made our teacher become so mean. She had convinced Sheila that she was one of the world's worst children. She also made her self-esteem hit absolute rock bottom at a very tender age. During that nightmare year of second grade...

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