: About Me

I grew up in Texas in a time of carefree absurdness. The air was always warm and the sun seamed to never fade. Everyday was, and still is a brand new adventure for me as a writer and as an individual.

I have been writing stories and poems since I was five years old. When I was seven, we moved to Kansas City, where my family had already laid down roots.

All through school I wrote for my school newspapers and won many awards at local writer's conferences. I always excelled in college literature and various writing ventures.

My one regret is not doing more with my writing. I hope to change that by finding this wonderful site!

In my life there are many wonderful people. To me, family is the most important thing at the end of the day. I live with my husband, Ryan, my daughter, Shelby, and my dog Baxter the Jack Russell Terrier. Family is a constant and continual source of inspiration and renewal in my life. Thank God I have them.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and currently work in the Heart Institute at a local inner city hospital as a cardiac nurse.

My passion is ...

learning, photography, and writing.

I know too much about ...

the suffering of people.

My parents always told me ...

"I wish you wouldn't come home so late!"

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a scientist, writer, or veterinarian.

My favorite memory ...

falling in love the first time.

Why I write ...

to ground my soul.

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

nursing journals, and Helium articles!

My first job ...

a grocery sacker.

My best moment ...

accomplishing a dream

My inspiration ...

God, nature, my daughter, and love.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Nature

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Nature Change as it may, and change as it might, nature my friend is always in sight! As I become a slave for a day in the concrete jungle, referred to many as "work", I long for the time to be lost again. I want to be lost on a green and murky lake, adrift in a kayak with the sound of trickling water leaving my paddle blades. I want to capture an image of a flying crane as it leaves its perching limb. I wish to witness a mother duck teaching her ducklings to v-line swim neatly in a row. You begin to notice the hands of God in the world enveloped around you. It becomes evident in the new d...

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