What can I say? I love to write and I love to read. My husband understands this about me and supports me in all my endeavors. My daughter has come to love this aspect of my life and continually asks me to either read or make up stories for her.

I mainly write fiction, so the bulk of what I do will be based on that, but I am not averse to discussing my opinions or providing some of my own insite to important or interesting issues.

I love life and I love writing about it.

My passion is ...

Writing/Reading

I know too much about ...

Working in a call center

My parents always told me ...

Sorry isn't good enough (dad) Always go after your dreams (mom)

My childhood ambition ...

When I grow up, I want to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

Finding out I was pregnant

Why I write ...

To live

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

It by Stephen King

My first job ...

Taco Bell

My best moment ...

Any moment with my husband and daughter

My inspiration ...

Fear and psychological disorders intrigue me. I like to find new ways to present them as normal aspects of life so the reader isn't sure if the character is crazy or if these things are really happening.

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Life

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Slaying the Attitude Vampire

The workplace often acts as a stimulant for the attitude vampire. Once inside the building, one may hear an ominous sucking sound, soft as a sigh over his or her shoulder and feel his or her soul slowly draining away. How long before one becomes another minion of the damned? The fight for sanity is arduous, the struggle for independent thought a burgeoning vine beating its roots against creativity, strangling any energy remaining to be oneself. Life outside work? What's that? The term is becoming unrecognizable in its complexity. If one can maintain a certain...

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