: About Me

I am the happily married mother of one hard-earned treasure. God gifted her to us after what felt like an endless struggle with mild infertility and many miscarriages. I have seven babies in Heaven that I will someday meet and will always love and miss. I have some of the best friends in the world, and come from a wonderful and large family.

I was raised the daughter of a pastor, and the man I married is currently a part-time evangelist. I was home schooled for 9 out of 13 years of my education and credit my love of writing - poetry and otherwise - to my beautiful and talented mother.

I'm so excited to have discovered this web site, and have found great fulfillment in writing again. I welcome critique and feedback as I am brand new to this whole experience and value learning and growing above many things. Areas I would especially appreciate help in are punctuation and overall grammar. I always have struggled with that.

Thank you for taking an interest in who I am. :0)

My passion is ...

creativity in all of its forms.

I know too much about ...

there is nothing I can't still learn from or about.

My parents always told me ...

that true joy is found in being who God would have me to be.

My childhood ambition ...

was to become a veterinarian and to mother a lot of children.

My favorite memory ...

reading through my mother's poetry and thinking what a wonderful gift of expression it was.

Why I write ...

because I found in my mother's writing inspiration and through my own have found the purest form of expression I can personally attain.

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

the 'light classical' channel on our television. I never tire of reading a good mystery. Sherlock Holmes is timeless, for instance.

My first job ...

was working at a Dairy Queen, and showed me that being home schooled in no way hindered my social skills. I have been pleased to be living proof of the opposite ever since.

My best moment ...

when the physical therapist released my daughter officially from a diagnosis that was supposed to last a lifetime. I have a new best moment every time she says something insightful and unexpected and I realize that I am part of something so big and meaningful.

My inspiration ...

comes now from the realization that God created me to write and to be compassionate. I am embracing the less judgmental and more creative side of myself and finding even greater contentment and fulfillment than I thought was possible.

Relationships & Family > Parents Over protective parents from the child's point of view

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"Look at her. Look at how they make her dress, isn't it such a shame? They are so overprotective; she is not allowed to do anything. Can you imagine?" It ranks among the most humiliating moments of my life. I was nearly seventeen years old and my family had come across state lines to work at a concession stand during a state fair because the man who had been my dad's boss as a young man had passed away and his wife was desperate for some honest help. Instead what happened was that we were brought over on promises that were not fulfilled, for pay that was never received, and ultimately (in ...

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