: About Me

As a child growing up in less than happy surroundings, I spent many hours writing about the bad, how I wanted it to be better and what I would do differently. I wrote page after page, until one day my mother read it. She took great offense and showed it to a number of people who read it. No one commented on it content. Just how many pages.

While in the miltary, I wrote recommendation letters, police blotters, police report synopsis, drafted the first edition of the regulations on juveniles, wrote enlisted evaluation reports for commanders and wrote statements to reflect actual circumstances.

In civilian life, I have written letters for employers, published catalogs, written copy for commercials, and wrote some advertisements for newspapers involving some private businesses. Drafted commercial quotes for jobs, bid sheets for commercial bids, gathering data and prices and publishing bids for construction projects.

After my divorce, I began to enjoy writing to people on the internet.
Being inspired by their description of their life and jobs, I would write my impression of their lives and work. The Internet gave me a sense of anonymity that I could express myself without concern. The experience was so overwhelming.

I have worked most of my life. My life reflects the chapters of a book. Each new chapter is a new beginning, learning, growing to be good at what ever I set my sights for and then once I get to the point that I am comfortable in this position. The gypsy in me longs for new goals, relationships, experiences. I have been successful in each new task that has come to me.

While telling my stories, some feel that I am a know it all but the fact is I don't know it all yet. But I hope some day I will. I have lived a very remarkable life and have alot to share. Please be patient with me, I have actually have done all of these things and many more. During the most aweful moments of my life, I wrote about a better life, different choices, better situation and circumstances. In my darkest hours, I would re-read my pages. After the bad times pass, I re-read them again and made notiations about prayers being answered and how I got through whatever that was in my way. I am able to see God's influence in my life. I have always written stories, poems and songs.

My passion is ...

is for the chapter in my life which has always read like a book.

I know too much about ...

nothing but the jack of all trades.

My parents always told me ...

go to sleep. I never slept more than 3 to 4 hours a night.

My childhood ambition ...

to please, always on the look out for someone to love me.

My favorite memory ...

Visiting Aunt Ester and eating spagetti with her.

Why I write ...

the joy, challenge and re-reading it and improving it.

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

a fast beat, a new view of life and a scene in someone life.

My first job ...

working on the farm with my granddad and my great grandmother.

My best moment ...

getting my license, car, turning 18, finishing my dress and dancing at the policemen ball with all my friends.

My inspiration ...

life.

Parenting & Pregnancy > Working Parents Can working women be good mothers?

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Being a good mother has nothing to do with being a working woman.  The goals that women set for ourselves dictates the lengths of our actions to be successful in our desires of home, family and life.  Each of us make decisions that carve out the path of our existence as well as our children and the beginning of their lives.  To be a mother staying home with our children, engaging them from the womb through to college is an ambitious goal.  This leads to well-adjusted children as far as home life and family but the child may suffer from the lack of exposure of the world ...

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