: About Me

Writing is a passion of mine and I have done it for years, most recently as a journalist for a regional newspaper, submitting daily news items, features and opinion pieces.

I also love teaching and I am currently a lecturer of Business Studies and Management at a College and serve as an adjunct faculty member for a University.

I have written poetry since I was a teenager and more recently have delved into writing creative prose.

My passion is ...

teaching

I know too much about ...

nothing. I want to learn more about everything.

My parents always told me ...

My small town is not the world. So dream big!

My childhood ambition ...

to be a journalist.

My favorite memory ...

playing unfettered, eating fruits with abandon on the hot summer days of my childhood.

Why I write ...

It serves as an outlet for my boundless opinions and imagination.

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

Reading: Freakonomics... Watching: The no 1 Ladies Detective on HBO!

My first job ...

grocery store clerk as a teenager

My best moment ...

my first published article

My inspiration ...

My mother

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Intimate

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Oh so pretty hearts and flowers too, It's green, it's pink, it's yellow and it's blue, Oh such glee to don her on my budding frame, Among my classmates it gives me lots of fame. Lacy, silky, racer, push up too, A drawer full of seduction for me to woo, I know my true love I am sure to find, Once he unclasps this garment of mine. Wide straps, in cotton and oh so plain, I pull I tug, adjusting almost in vain, Helping to defy gravity and deny age, My faithful friend of decades wise as a sage. She's seen it all, husbands, children, men, I unclasp, they unclasp over three score and ten, Come an...

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