: About Me

AA Liberal Arts, Gonzaga University
BA Business Administration Management, summa cum laude, AIU.
Mother of 2
Married 13 years to a career Army enlisted soldier
Working 2 jobs

My passion is ...

my family.

My childhood ambition ...

to be Earl Hemingway.

Why I write ...

to perform exorcism on my soul.

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

Mad Men

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: War in Iraq

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Here I am 5 years into the macabre merry-go-round that has become my life since Sept. 11, 2001; here I sit, while my husband is deeply immersed in training to yet again head into the sand box and out of our lives, for the fourth time. When I am asked about my experience as a military wife in these times I often say I feel as if my life has been placed on pause. As if some finger from the netherworld has reached up out of the abyss and with a simple gesture has placed everything I thought I knew off kilter, and frozen the life I had planned to have in time. In times like this, humor seems t...

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