: About Me

I am a student from a small town. Growing up, writing was always a hobby for me, and my first experience with publication came when I was twelve. I won the Mid West Regional ACSI Creative Writing competition and had my story published in an American youth literature collection. The following two years that I entered the contest yielded the same results. My ego seemed to have been suddenly strapped to a rocket called confidence that had no where to go but up. Once I reached high school, my interest in writing expanded from purely creative ditties and anecdotes to research and journalism. I felt as if I were a detective solving mysteries of unknown and hidden information. It was reward enough for me to imagine that one of my compositions would eventually find its way under the eyes of some individual who would not only find it compelling and interesting, but perhaps newly informative and previously unknown. That hope and feeling has never left me, and today I write with the same purpose I wrote with as a child - to perhaps bless my readers with information, empathy, or humor.

My passion is ...

music.

I know too much about ...

useless things.

My parents always told me ...

that I could be whatever I wanted to be.

My childhood ambition ...

to be an entomologist.

My favorite memory ...

Christmastime with my family.

Why I write ...

See my About Me!

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

ooh boy. Too many things to list here.

My first job ...

babysitting my little brother.

Celebrations & Holidays > Easter 2010 White House Easter Egg Hunt

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On April 5, 2010, more than 30,000 children and their families will storm the South Lawn of the White House, rolling as many as 13,000 hard-boiled eggs, and participating in other family events. They will be taking part in the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, an event steeped in tradition and history. It is one of the largest and most popular family-friendly events held at the White House each year. Keeping in it's tradition of childhood playtime, the event this year will hold the theme of "Ready, Set, Go!" which is intended to promote health and wellness in collaboration with First Lad...

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