: About Me

BIG NEWS! As of March 4, 2008, I have temporary custody of my baby cousin Christopher. Mom and Dad are both heavily involved in the drug culture. We expect to have him for a very long time.

I make my paycheck by telling cops where to go, but in my heart and soul I'm a writer. I knew how to read by the age of 3 and started trying to write shortly thereafter.

My husband is a deputy sheriff, and I used to be one; now I dispatch and I like it that way. I've been with the department for 11 years and someday I'm going to put our combined experiences in a book. We've got too many stories between us that beg to be shared.

We live in Florida but were raised in upstate New York. We have one dog (Hunter, 9) and two cats (Smudge, 15, and baby Jaguar, 2). We've been together nearly 15 years.

He escapes from the job with leatherwork; I escape to the computer and treadmill.

I've lost 27.5 pounds since October 1, 2007 with the help of the wonderful community at http://www.sparkpeople.com. I also maintain a personal blog at http://solitaryshell.typepad.com, in which I focus on pain and solitude and whatever else is going through my head at the time.

I'm also an administrator at http://www.thefootballpalace.com, where I am known as jagfangirl27.

My passion is ...

NFL football and writing

I know too much about ...

police work

My parents always told me ...

not everyone is as smart as I am.

My childhood ambition ...

become a famous writer

My favorite memory ...

my husband proposing to me while watching a movie at a friend's house

Why I write ...

I don't know what it's like to not write

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

reading anything I can get my hands on; watching very little; listening to the hum of the air conditioner in February.

My first job ...

singing in my dad's bluegrass band

My best moment ...

the day I got hired at my hometown newspaper as a copy editor

My inspiration ...

Rashean Mathis of the Jacksonville Jaguars and everyone at sparkpeople.com

Relationships & Family > Married Life When your husband works too much

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Marriage is a lonely business. I learned that important truth early on. When we got together, I knew he was leaving for Navy boot camp in 2 months. In my head, I knew that meant separation, but I figured I could handle it because I was no stranger to long-distance relationships. Separation turned out to be the easy part. I'd always been independent, able to amuse myself and maintain plenty of friendships to keep me occupied. The hard part was the hours he was forced to keep. His ship was in dry dock, and instead of working his 24-hour duty day once every 6 days as he'd been promised, it wa...

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