: About Me

*My real name is Angela Ivanovskiy, but I write under the name Nonie Alyn Bard. Each part of my pen name has a meaning that is significant to me. Translate those and you will gain a deeper understanding of me.

A true Florida native, I was born and raised in St. Petersburg. I've since lived in Tarpon Springs and Tampa - all in Florida - and now live on the state's beautiful space coast, roughly fifty miles south of Cape Canaveral. This has been my home since the fall of 2006. I have been happily married since 2001, and we are expecting our first child - a son - in June 2008.

For as long as memory serves I've loved to write and have had a knack for it. Experience, education and a multitude of jobs has only increased my span of knowledge and skill. I have always written fiction stories, non-fiction personal stories, and poetry. In college I studied creative writing and mass communications, and I've written and edited professional work and desktop publishing material for several companies that I've worked for. My Microsoft skills are highly advanced, landing me the opportunity to train professionals at a local private university in various applications.

Since the summer of 2007 I've worked as a writer for myself, creating my own business (Florida Authoress) that specializes in creative and professional writing and desktop publishing services. This allows me the opportunity to pursue what I love, give my passion my full attention, and stay at home to raise my family.

My passion is ...

Writing, family and health.

I know too much about ...

Microsoft applications and politics.

My parents always told me ...

To just be me.

My childhood ambition ...

Writing, stellar grades, and playing my flute and piccolo.

My favorite memory ...

Cannot be limited to a single memory.

Why I write ...

I love it and I'm darn good at it!

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

Reading: SORCERESS by Lisa Jackson.

My first job ...

Medical Billing Specialist.

My best moment ...

Becoming my own person, which is separate from and surpassed what my family ever expected of me.

My inspiration ...

My amazing husband, Tim - an immigrant and survivor from former USSR.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Arrogance

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Elixir For Insolence It is not what is seen plainly before you. It goes deeper; not obscene, but nebulously fit though not a glove to hide the contents, like the skin covers the us' inside. This defines who's within that only we, ourselves, and those closest to us, without needing to delve too much, know so well. Thus, the energy reflects by way of our aura, outward, as it affects others so they feel a sense of knowledge that once made them blind from the truth. Those labeled as a dunce, narcissism in youth, and persons affected by such parties can learn much if they look ahead and enroll ...

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