: About Me

Lynnette Southwood was born in Denver Colorado and is the oldest of five children. She has two children, both living in Arvada, Colorado. She attended the Community College of Denver (CCD) and majored in English, with the goal of becoming a journalist. She worked at Lockheed Martin IMS in Denver for three years as an office manager, before marrying and becoming a full-time wife and mother. During this time, she volunteered for Colorado HealthNet, a Colorado nonprofit corporation formed to provide electronic access to factual and statistical information, support services, medical resources, and related health care information for persons with chronic medical conditions. She also volunteered for Jeffco Self Sufficiency, a non-profit organization for people trying to live without government aid.

In 2003, she and her then husband started, a property management company, and soon after, they bought an existing nail and skin care salon and ran it for a year before her husband was promoted to a district managers position in Scottsdale Arizona. The move to Arizona soon followed a divorce and a move to Las Vegas, NV where she pursued writing and sanity maintenance. Las Vegas proved that "There's no place like home." so she moved back to Colorado at the urging of her offspring.

She is currently the office manager at a commercial garage repair and installation company. She is serial dating and enjoying long abandoned hobbies such as, reading, writing, music, socializing, fitness (especially yoga) and strategic computer games.

My passion is ...

Communicating

I know too much about ...

According to the ex, everything! Seriously, human nature.

My parents always told me ...

My mother aIways told me "When I die, your not getting anything.

My childhood ambition ...

I didn't have any, I was too busy raising siblings. I suppose the ambition was to have a life.

My favorite memory ...

When I brought my daughter home from the hospital, my son asked me "Where is her mother and when was I taking her back to the hospital."

Why I write ...

I write for perspective, mine and others.

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

I am reading the last Harry Potter, I am a news whore so I watch and read as much as I can.

My first job ...

Was telemarketing at 17.

My best moment ...

Realizing that I had raised two beautiful motivated children successfully.

My inspiration ...

The need to survive.

Entertainment > Movie Awards & Nominations 80th Annual Academy Awards: Winners, losers and surprises

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The co-hosts of The View seemed to think that the absence of Whoopi Goldberg in a montage of great moments from Oscars past was a conscious decision. The oversight was brought up almost immediately on ABC's morning talk show the morning after the 80th Annual Academy Awards ceremony. The fact that she was featured in another montage highlighting past Oscar winners didn't soothe the burn. Goldberg said very little, leaving the bulk of the discussion to her girls but she did seem a bit confused and hurt and I'm sure those feeling were amplified by the discussion, which only provoked her pals ...

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