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About me

Since becoming semi-retired and having more time to finally give into my love for writing, I have found outlets like Helium to allow me to do so. With a career of over 30 years as a paralegal, and experiences like living in Southern Brasil for two years, and being married to a Brasilian man, as well as creating my own website on travel to Southern Brasil (see a pattern here?), I have a lot to share. Hopefully, this will be one of many forums to do so. I can't wait to find out who I really am.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Cooking, writing, creating

I know too much about ...

nothing, and a little bit more about everything else

My parents always told me ...

to believe in myself and trust my instincts

My childhood ambition ...

to save the world

My favorite memory ...

At this stage in life, they are all favorites.

Why I write ...

To appease the entities I'm channeling, I guess.

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

Anything to do with positive thinking and/or humor...they go hand in hand.

My first job ...

Part-time activities helper at a Boy's Club. How lucky was I?

My best moment ...

is the present.

My inspiration ...

Knowing that I am capable of so much through the power of the Universe.

Featured article by Patti Beckert

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Fruitcake: 1 of 3

A former Walmart employee and part-time nutty professor has begun research into alternative uses for the millions of fruitcakes that are returned every December 26th to Walmart. Speaking from the garage of his home on Vista Drive in Bentonville, Wallace Hadnough says that he got the idea of turning used fruitcake into an alternative fuel source when it was his job to throw mounds of the returned fruitcakes into the dumpsters out back. "Man, I'd bring shopping carts full of the stuff out to the dumpsters. I had to start wearing a back brace just to get through the day." "After about three o...
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