: About Me

My passion is ...

my family.

I know too much about ...

loss.

My parents always told me ...

I could accomplish anything.

My childhood ambition ...

to be an opthalmologist.

My favorite memory ...

is any time spent alone with my mom, doing ordinary everyday things.

Why I write ...

to be heard.

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

always reading something different, I don't watch much on televsion, but I am currently listening to Shawn Colvin's latest c.d.

My first job ...

cashier at Super D Drugs...sold lots of enemas and hair dye to elderly men.

My best moment ...

hopefully hasn't happened yet. Had a lot of bests so far...

My inspiration ...

so many can't just choose one.

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Mom's first day of kindergarten

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As I write this, I'm a mere eleven days out from my baby boy's first day of kindergarten. I have survived sending his two older siblings to kindergarten years ago, and I am still a relatively well-composed, rational woman. I know, however, that despite all evidence to the contrary, when my youngest walks through that classroom door and I turn the corner on my way back to the parking lot, I'll be suppressing that hiccupy, weepy feeling as long as I can. Forget any "tea and tissues" reception the P.T.A. might hold for moms like me in the school courtyard. I reserve my full out, wailing, "ugl...

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