During the majority of the day, I get paid to be an "analyst" which in reality is a title that means I do a bevy of things ranging from data analysis and quality improvement projects to all out project management. During the rest of the breathing hours, I go to the gym, walk and raise money for cancer prevention and research, volunteer at local food banks and write.

A self-described writer since grade school, I have been awarded scholarships, been pulled into private sessions with an assortment of talented, creative and unique artists of various mediums. At the age of 30, I completed and put into self publication my first set of stories, which were the result of an Internet book project I had embarked upon.

As I approach age 34, I have started a second work of fiction as well as embarking on the challenge of writing a cookbook. It's an exciting adventure.

My passion is ...

like a pineapple, sweet, sticky and with a tough exterior that will lacerate the tongue.

I know too much about ...

nothing.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be Wonder Woman.

Why I write ...

I write because I don't know what else to do.

My first job ...

was cleaning cabins at a resort.

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If you think my thighs are big, I'm glad I'm not alone.

In the last few years, a change in the dynamics of design has occurred which only reinforces my fear that my thighs are nothing more than two Goodyear blimps suspended from my hips. Pants, like cars, have gone aerodynamic or some other feat of engineering with a technical term, but in lay person language, the scourge that is "skinny leg" pants has overcome the nation.

Even the very name of the pant "Skinny Leg" implies that if it doesn't fit you, you are fat. Or, at least, your legs are. There are other styles, but they are essent...

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