: About Me

I am so excited to be here! Wow. Ok. Anyway, I am a single mother of two boys, ages 14 and 17. My children are my world. But I do live in another universe, and that is Universe of the writer. I have been exploring that wonderful universe since I was a young child. At the age of twelve, I sent in one of those small writing pads with a childhood story/autobiography written in it.

I sent it in to a publishing company and they sent me a wonderful rejection letter (is there such a thing?). They suggested that I wait until I was older to send in another manuscript.  I didn't expect my writers' block to last some 30 years, but, oh well. I am back in the saddle again, riding it hard, and glad to be back, especially in a writers' saddle such as this one.

My passion is ...

Writing of course, reading of course, and fashion of course.

I know too much about ...

Domestic violence.

My parents always told me ...

love yourself first, and the rest will come.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a teacher.

My favorite memory ...

One of my favorite teachers-Miss Ramsdell.

Why I write ...

Because I have a lot to say.

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

I am reading "Lies My Teachers Told Me" by James Loewen. everyone in the world should read this historical book...i find it fascinating. I am always reading anything spiritual or anything by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

My first job ...

Working as a reference clerk in our town library.

My best moment ...

Receiving the Black Achievement Award along with my father, who patented the battery for the pacemaker.

My inspiration ...

My Daddy.

Arts & Humanities > English Language Cliches and how they make their way into the spoken and written word

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"Dr. Michael Spear, in our Department of Journalism, warns his students to avoid these journalistic phrases because they are so often overused. Many of them crop up in academic writing, too. We have added a few others to this (admittedly incomplete) list. Occasionally they have an ironic effect, or a reader might like them (this writer loves "sands of time") but usually faculty members mark them as inappropriate:" all walks of life give the devil his due never a dull moment behind the eight ball hook, line, and sinker nipped in the bud bitter end by hook or crook patience of Job calm befor...

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