I am a 28-year-old single mother who loves to read, write, and dabble in art. In short, I have a creative side. I have been writing poetry, short stories, and non-fiction since my first poetry assignment in 6th grade. I have had poems published in anthologies for poetry and won grade-school contests, but that is where my list of achievements ends. Writing was always a hobby to me, a release of emotions and ideas.

Not until recently, when I found myself unemployed for the first time ever since my first job at 14, have I considered it as something I could make a career of. I have always been encouraged to share my work, even in high school, but was too caught up in trying to sort out my own emotions to put them on display for the world to see. Now that I am an adult, I realize that I am able to invoke feeling, thought, and more importantly - cause others to identify with their own emotions -with the depth of my own candor.

My passion is ...

writing, reading, loving.

I know too much about ...

struggle.

My parents always told me ...

...they never told me- I grew up before them.

My childhood ambition ...

teacher.

My favorite memory ...

my recent Disney World trip.

Why I write ...

see above (it is my passion and my voice)

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

my son singing along with Diego.

My first job ...

biscuit company

My best moment ...

motherhood

My inspiration ...

beating the odds life gave me.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Moments that change your life

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Moments that changed my life: a list (in order by importance)

Moment #1: The birth of my son. At the risk of sounding like a cliche, the birth of my now four-year-old son was without a doubt the single-most precious moment of my life. I would have been a completely different person without him. Ofcourse motherhood, and in my case single motherhood, generates many levels of stress that I would have never known had I not had a child - finances being the biggest worry. But, as most mothers would tell you - there is nothing in this world I would trade for him, not even the long forgotten night...

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