: About Me

I am a self taught writer. I love to write about issues concerning education of special needs students. I have been an ESE teacher in Florida for 13 years, so the educational needs of my students are very important to me. I also write poetry and prose. Have been self published on the web.

My passion is ...

teaching students to read

My childhood ambition ...

was to become an artist or teacher

My favorite memory ...

going fishing with my dad

Why I write ...

to release that passion that flows within me

My first job ...

to be a mother

My best moment ...

graduating college

My inspiration ...

my daughter

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Uncontrollable feelings

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calm me the sun so hot it roils through my veins, molten. the sand blows so brutally it stings my skin, abrasive. the snow is deep and wet and chills my bones, frigid. the water drenches my clothes and pulls at me, drowning. calm me synapse bang and clang like cymbals in the band. nerve endings tense and electric, zap and buzz like power lines downed in the seasonal storm. every sound is amplified and I careen like the whirl wind, the tumble weed, or the single drop of water rushing from the torrent of the falls. calm me take the sun take the sand take the snow keep me from drowning. quiet...

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