: About Me

I'm a 33 year old Administrative Assistant who loves her job because it affords me time to do things on the side such as write and critique for Helium! I'm fairly new to this freelance thing. . .but it has great promise.

My passion is ...

music with meaning.

I know too much about ...

pharmacutical medicine.

My parents always told me ...

you can't count on anyone but yourself.

My childhood ambition ...

was to sing for a living.

My favorite memory ...

was going on tour to 18 cities in 18 days back in 1991.

Why I write ...

because I like to offer people advice.

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

Josh Groban's AWAKE album. . .I adore him.

My first job ...

Concord Custom Cleaners

My best moment ...

hasn't occurred yetI think.

My inspiration ...

is my Grandmother. She's the hardest working woman I've ever known.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Human imperfection

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Humans are imperfect on a number of levels. We're greedy and selfish. We lie, cheat, and steal sometimes. But, most of all, I think we are imperfect because we expect too much of ourselves and have incredibly high and unrealistic expectations of others. Of course, when standards are not met right away, in the exact way we desire, we are more likely to cut people off than to try again. Another major way we show our imperfection is in being unsatisfied with whatever we have presently. Somehow we always want to "upgrade", "biggie size it", or trade up for the latest and greatest model availab...

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