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I write as if my life depended on it, because it does. I am a freelance writer working for clients around the world , which has given me a unique perspective, especially for the South.

At 35, I've earned every last premature gray hair on my head and don't care who knows it. I think my plants understand me better than most people do, and I strive to embody the same unconditional love that my dogs have for me.

My passion is ...

children, love, the written word and Jelly Bellys.

I know too much about ...

loss.

My parents always told me ...

what they thought would make them sound the best.

My childhood ambition ...

to work with the Peace Corps.

My favorite memory ...

9/10/2001 - it was the last day the world was still "ok".

Why I write ...

I write because I don't have the option to not write. There are people and stories inside my head that demand to be told.

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

"Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou,

My first job ...

grocery stocker

My best moment ...

working with teen suicide prevention

My inspiration ...

children are my inspiration, period. I plan to become a father before I am 40.

Personal Finance > Mortgages & Home Loans Exposing the unscrupulous practices of the mortgage broker

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I'm not sleeping very well these days. Truth told, I haven't slept well in quite a while. I knew the potential effects of what I was doing when I worked for a major mortgage lender in Alabama, but our instructions were simple and direct get the business by any means necessary. It has been a year now since I left the industry but in my estimation during my five years as a loan originator I probably had a hand in at least 2,000 of the foreclosures I see CNN talk about every day now. Of course at the time we were just helping people get the loans they needed to buy the house of their dreams, ...

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