: About Me

I am a kaleidoscope of passions, talents, and beliefs. Multitasking and organization are just a few of my strong points (I am a wife and mother of four, after all). Instead of becoming too entrenched in these roles, I've enjoyed a renaissance of creativity. I let myself indulge in my interests, whether it be gardening, quoting movie lines, crafting, and of course, writing. I love being fun.

I remember lying in my bed as a teenager for hours on end, filling one notebook after another with stories. One in particular was set in the 21st century, where a young woman on a journey to a space station travels through a wormhole to the future and falls in love. Another project later on was during my Dungeons and Dragons phase, and I began to document our adventures, thinking I could turn this into a fantasy novel. That dream was toast once I found out our DM was blatantly plagiarizing from the Dragonlance series. *Sigh* I been dabbling with a new direction off and on for twenty years now.

So now I have a chance to reawaken the characters and plotlines that have been playing out in my mind for so long, and to share my (mumbles age) years of experience on this earth. Sure I'd like recognition, but to have an outlet too is so wonderful!

My passion is ...

learning all I can about the things I love to do.

I know too much about ...

movie and TV trivia.

My parents always told me ...

there's a reason for everything.

My childhood ambition ...

to publish a science fiction novel.

My favorite memory ...

I have so many, it's hard to whittle them down!

Why I write ...

to get all the ideas I have down on paper before I go crazy!

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

"48 Days to the Work You Love," by Dan Miller

My first job ...

Collating papers at a mailing house.

My best moment ...

Recently, my prof said I had an Erma Bombeck sensibility to my writing.

My inspiration ...

My experiences, my family, and observing the world around me.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Flying

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"Flyboy" I've always dreamed of possessing wings. Birds just take it for granted, the gift of flight, Like singing or finding worms in the dirt. Tonight, I will join their domain. Propeller sputters to life Chut, chut, chut The Cessna arouses, a massive hummingbird Trembling in empathy with my anticipation And the aroma of avgas infuses the cockpit. The runway approaches me in a blur of blacktop. Birds disband in deference As I coax the air to cradle the wings. Timberline falls away with my stomach. This is my legal drug, My heart mounting higher than the Altimeter could dare aspire. I can...

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