About me....well, I am the mother of 4 beautiful, wonderful sons, ranging in age from 6 to 17...I am happily married these past 13 years to my son-to-be-retired sailor. He spent 20 years aboard submarines and has lots of great stories to tell.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember. As a child, before I had the wherewithal to put strings of letters together in coherent fashion, I would scribble stories with crayon and read them to my mother. By the time I was thirteen I was filling notebooks.

I am compelled to write; even when I have nothing of value to say yet I find myself drawn to the keyboard. Even if it is just to zip off a quick email or a message board response, I must express myself through my writing.

My love of books is possibly more voracious and compelling; being with them is more heady than any drug. I love to hold them in my hands, to smell that crisp, slightly acidic aroma, to see the words no neatly and perfectly spaced on those smooth pages. I fantasize that some day I will hold my own book.

Until then, I hope you enjoy my writing here. May it be my gift to the world.

Society & Lifestyle > Subcultures What happened with "being yourself"?

2 of 39

Be Different. Be Amish.

It occurred to me recently that being "punk" is now "cool". It didn't used to be that way. My husband was punk back when his parents basically shunned him from family life for having a mohawk, and stores like Hot Topic didn't exist. He had to scrounge the thrift stores and K-mart to find clothes that expressed his inner angst. Punk bands didn't sport major labels and had to travel in broken down vans and were lucky to get 200 a gig. Mostly they played for the love of it. Bands like Green Day and Good Charlotte would have been a joke to a real punk.

Back in the ...

More..

Writing: