: About Me

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I'm a wife. I'm a mommy. I'm mildly neurotic... primarily due to the fact that I am a wife and a mommy..

My main passion is photography, but I've loved to read and write since my uncle, Donald Hays (author of "The Hangman's Children" and "Dixie Land") gave me my first real book (Judy Blume's "Are you There God? It's me, Margaret") when I was six-years-old.

My passion is ...

Photography

I know too much about ...

European History and the heartache of parenting.

My parents always told me ...

I had a flair for the dramatics.

My childhood ambition ...

was to obtain a career as an exorcist...

My favorite memory ...

(cliche, I know) birth of my children.

Why I write ...

to make you laugh.

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

this silly survey thingy...

My first job ...

cocktaail waitress at a little bar (le blanc et noir) in Bourg-en-Bresse, France

My best moment ...

the day I boarded the plane for boot camp.

My inspiration ...

MY WORLD!

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Career change horror stories

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She was thirty years old and dressed like a teenage streetwalker. Her green eye shadow and deep red lipstick resembled a garish Christmas decoration. I swear I could spot a little nipple coming out of her cleavage-flashing, skintight, polka-dotted sweater. Her name was Angie and she was my new boss. How was I supposed to take this woman seriously? I'm several years her junior, but felt like her mom. Direct quote from me to her, "Angie, if your boyfriend's doing cocaine around your kids, perhaps you should leave him" My second week on the job, she handed me a bag of weed and some pills and ...

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