: About Me

My passion is ...

my career-I am an ER nurse

I know too much about ...

illness, accidents, and death-because of my job

My parents always told me ...

Don't wear your skirts too short (back in the day when mini-skirts were in fashion)

My childhood ambition ...

To be an independent woman

My favorite memory ...

Reading with my grandmother as a child

Why I write ...

Something inside me needs to

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

silence

My first job ...

Bank-bookkeeping dept

My best moment ...

Becoming a mother for the first time

My inspiration ...

People who overcome adversity with strength and grace

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Family life, looking back at times gone by

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One fine day as I sprinted around Super Wal-Mart in my usual fashion of running a half hour late, something curious happened. As I was racing up and down the aisles hurling food items, milk, and Diet Cokes into my cart, I was simultaneously attempting to beep my husband to pick up our daughter across town, trying to locate my son through his cell phone to go home and shove dinner in the oven, and glaring with irritation towards the extremely long check out line. Business as usual so far. As I rounded aisle #11, with my shopping cart practically on two wheels, I stopped dead in my tracks. B...

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