: About Me

I'm 21 years old, I've been writing since I was nine. Before that I told stories but I drew them. I'm terrible at drawing but it kept me occupied until I figured out that someone had to write all those great books that I got from the library. It was on!

I am married to a sweet, wonderful man who used to drives truck professionally and I rode with him. It's an interesting life. I like it.

I have submitted several stories to publishers and write as much as I possibly can, although I feel like I should write more. I am working on many different fictional stories, of many genres, and am determined to have as many as possible published and in bookstores and libraries (I love libraries as well) across the country. I am always reading about publishing as well.

I worked as a live-in nanny, and I am also pregnant with our first child. We don't know what we are going to have, we would rather be surprised. I'm the mother hen type and even though I know (we all know!) it isn't true, I know why people say "You're going to catch a cold if you go outside without a coat." There is a lot less explaining involved. That phrase is a favorite of mine when I'm around my cousins.

Thanks for reading my bio. I'd like to read yours. Mail me a link: raefahnel@yahoo.com

My passion is ...

WRITING! I am also extremely fond of music, although I have no interest in making music myself.

I know too much about ...

too much. I read WAY too much.

My parents always told me ...

clean your room!

My childhood ambition ...

I had several. First and foremost was writing, then was finding a nice husband, getting married and having LOTS of babies.

My favorite memory ...

Opening my inbox and seeing the message that the article I had written for MarketPlace had been purchased.

Why I write ...

Because if I didn't I would have to be committed.

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

Lately I haven't read too much for fun, mostly research for my writing. I am a country music junkie, never get too much of it. I want the happy songs, I love Big Green Tractor! Also love Criag Morgan, other Jason Aldean songs, and I like Jason Michael Carroll.

My first job ...

doing odd jobs for a friend for $4.50 an hour.

My best moment ...

There have been several that stand out. Standing in front of the Justice of the Peace and promising to love, honor and cherish my husband stands out as a moment I am forever going to be glad happened.

My inspiration ...

I'm not sure. It depends on how I'm feeling and what's going on around me. I love it when I see something or hear something and get an idea. I love it even more when I can get the idea to cooperate with me and allow me to put it down on paper or on the screen.

Entertainment > Television (Other) Which were the best Mash episodes and why?

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Ask me which were the best M*A*S*H episodes on two different days and you will probably get two different answers. What make a great episode, though, seems to remain the same: a story line we can care about; a character whose life and experiences show us we aren't as crazy as we thought and at the same times makes us aware that none of us are as sane, either; and tossed in there like croutons to make the Caesar salad all it is, a few of Hawkeye's wisecracks. "Period of Adjustment" comes to mind today as a great episode. We see a father forcibly separated from his child, and his heartbreak ...

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