: About Me

I wasn't proportioned properly to be a dancer, so God gave me a gift for words, lots of experiences and opinions, and a creative mind.

My all time favorite job has been being a mother. If they ever give me grandchildren, I am pretty sure that my opinion will change with respect to that.

Life has been interesting.  A lot of it has been traumatic, but most of it has been a series of unfolding miracles for which I am very grateful.  I am not a Bible thumper, but God is great, in my humble opinion.

Even the bad things in life have a purpose.  Somebody remind me of this fact when I forget it in the middle of a crisis, okay?

I love everybody for a minute.  Most people screw that up.  My kids can't. . .it has saved their lives more than once.

My passion is ...

searching for answers.

I know too much about ...

mental disorders and rape.

My parents always told me ...

life is an education, there are no mistakes, only lessons to be learned.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a dancer.

Why I write ...

to share my experience and imagination.

My first job ...

Counting inventory at a hardware store.

My best moment ...

was helping a boy escape deportation to Nigeria.

My inspiration ...

the injustices in the world

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Emptiness

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Waiting For the Day I Go I swim in the despair of my own tears; A complex masterpiece of wasted years. Quickly milestones clicked by without a single question as to why. Responsibility took command, So we walked on hand in hand. You wouldn't question love We thought a gift from above; And held a glorious parade of the contract that we'd made. Simply drifted off to sea leaving only you and me. We toiled a life of prosperity that brought me to insanity. My crying soon replaced the gentle smile that donned my face. The dream I'd held erased by the misery we chased. And the clicking in my brai...

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