I call myself a reformed Type A. A classic over-achiever with her heart set on a job running a PR team, always climbing the ladder. Then, one day on a rare care trip alone, the first chapter of book I never knew I wanted to write started spinning in my mind. I knew the characters’ […]
I believe an obsessive love of reading often leads to a desire to write. I spent hours alone as a child, reading everything from Enid Blyton to Roald Dahl. When I left Zambia to go to boarding school at the tender age of 9, I discovered I could bring joy to my school friends by […]
My mother left our Oklahoma farm when I was in first grade. I used to sit on the steps of our one-room schoolhouse with my dog and read for hours during recess and after school. Books first offered me an escape from my chaotic world and later security and comfort, which is why I began to […]
Writing is my first love. It’s an innate gift from God, which I cherish completely. I loved sharing stories with my mother as a child. I would blurt, “I want to be an author one day.” She would smile, without uttering a word. Pure motivation! Writing is emotionally significant to me because it allows me […]
With parents who were reporters at The Washington Post during the Watergate Era, I grew up in the newsroom, surrounded by typewriters, passionate people and the smell of newspaper ink. I marinated in the ink as a child and it became infused in my blood, like an I.V. drip. I have always written and have […]
After my mother passed when I was 10, five years later, writing & I found each other and our love is stronger than ever! Writing became the way that I communicate. No longer was I speaking to people and being as open as I used to. I shut down after her death and to this […]
Foremost, I am a reader. In grade school, I would spend my breaks in the library, then feel sad when I heard the ringing of the bell that signaled the end of recess because it would mean parting with an unfinished book. After school, I would again pass by the library to borrow and take […]
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