: About Me

What is a biography for other than saying who I am and what I've done? It seems simple enough, right? Behold, my sheepish expression as I try to word something together that makes me seem even quasi-interesting! Watch me also as I fail miserably.

Regretfully, all I am is an aspiring author who has worked away at her style and other technicalities since middle school. I typically try to utilize my otherwise useless college degree in some way no matter the story. Myths are a by-product of human existence (or intelligent life, for that matter), and I like to work such stories into the main frame of whatever I'm doing.

Also, thanks to my dissertation, I've developed an extreme interest in the concept of the antihero. Unfamiliar? Think of Captain Nemo or Achilles, all the people doing the right thing for the wrong reasons or the wrong thing for the right reasons.

I have, undoubtedly, no life.

Aside from the whole writing aspect, I'm chipping away at a master's in ancient myth and society and living the life of the typical under-statured, overly-imaginative recluse. I enjoy such authors as Steven Brust, Garth Nix and George R.R. Martin (oh! do I ever...) but otherwise make it a strange habit to pick up a random book and read it cover to cover regardless of subject.

My passion is ...

the very act of being creative.

I know too much about ...

lots of random things. I'm told that conversations with me are never boring and always leave the listeners with new tidbits that they didn't know before.

My parents always told me ...

that the best way to learn is to stick your fingers in the fan.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a writer or animator.

My favorite memory ...

changes all the time.

My inspiration ...

can come from anywhere.

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory The American Covenant: The Declaration of Independence

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For the first time in my life and only a short time ago, I read the entirety of the Declaration of Independence. It is no longer properly focused on in schools, the same as the Constitution and other key points of American identity. We are losing something so important to our everyday lives, and it leaves us more and more ignorant, generation by generation. The event that spurred me to acquaint myself with a centuries-old dream was a conversation I had with my grandmother a few weeks ago (the film National Treasure, likewise, provided inspiration). She is a staunch Republican. I'm not. I'v...

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