: About Me

Since I was a child growning up in Ireland I have had a love of the written word. I devoured every book I could get my hands on, losing myself in the stories, imagining myself as one of the characters until the world around me disappeared. I lived vicariously through fictional places, people, and the circumstances the author created.

After graduating from St. Magdalene Convent School, I attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland graduating with a BAs in English Literature and Musical Performance. I came to the states to attend UCLA in California and earned a Masters in Music. After preforming professionally for many years as a classical pianist I retired to concentrate on my first love - writing.

I began publishing articles, poetry and essays in several periodicals and magazines. As I grew more confident with my writing abilities I wrote and publised many short stories and taught a Creative Writing course at the local junior college. I am now working on a full length novel which I hope to finish in a few months.

My passion is ...

Making the world more beautiful through my writings and my music

My parents always told me ...

You can be anything you want to be as long as you want it bad enough and are willing to work for it.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a concert pianist and a writer.

My favorite memory ...

My grandmother reading outloud to me

Why I write ...

To express my inner most feelings and emotions

My best moment ...

Winning my first piano competition at age 13

My inspiration ...

To be the best at whatever I do.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Life is . . .

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As the leaves of the trees turn color in the autumn so do the leaves of your life turn through the years. Ever evolving, always changing, like the brightly colored patterns in a kaleidoscope. Woven with dreams and hopes, memories and plans for the future the years converge upon each other, one after the other in relentless timely fashion. It is up to each of us to seize the opportunities that present themselves to us...to enjoy each passing moment, to live life to the fullest. Just as the colorful autumn leaves give way to the bare branches of winter so do our lives run out of season. Don'...

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