: About Me

I am 25 years old, currently living in Denver, CO with my honey and our baby boy.

I answer phones in a call center during the week, design floral arrangements on the weekends, and write constantly. I am also a voracious reader of anything from trade publications to Stephen King novels.

I've been writing since I was 9 years old, and haven't given up since, notwithstanding the occasional bout of writer's block. Those journals penned by a dorky preteen carried me through the years to a bachelor's degree in journalism.

I hope to have a career in writing, sooner than later.

My passion is ...

Art

I know too much about ...

Flowers

My parents always told me ...

That I made them proud

My childhood ambition ...

To be a rockstar!

My favorite memory ...

My son's first smile

Why I write ...

Catharsis

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

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

My first job ...

Cashier at a flowershop

My best moment ...

The birth of my son

My inspiration ...

Writers everywhere

Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Pregnancy is beautiful

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All I wanted was a dress. Actually, scratch that. What I really wanted was to feel like a woman again. Oh, the perfect irony of it! Here I was, 8 months pregnant, harboring a growing, squirming life within me, and "feminine" was the last adjective that sprung to mind upon contemplating my bloated image in the dressing room mirror. "Bovine", as I struggled into a 38DD nursing bra, was the first. On my way to Safeway to pick up the Dr Pepper and carton of strawberries I'd been hankering for all afternoon, I'd waddled into the outlet store with the idea of finding a flirty summer dress that w...

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