I started writing when I was thirteen, I had many influences in my life and the only way I could truly escape from this existance is to take pen in hand and write what laid in my heart down on paper. The middle child of seven, in a poverty class family, I grew up thinking of myself as on the outside looking in, then in highschool, Mrs. Snider told me that I would someday become an author, she gave me the confidence to achieve my dreams.

editor awards for poetry

I've been bullied as a child, at school, well desiplined at home, a lot of times I thought of myself as misunderstood, because my dreams were always of being someplace else, riding horses out in an open field, climbing steep mountains, (I did climb a steep 50 foot cliff at age 16, never tried it again, scared of heights now), in my dreams I never wanted for anything, My dream man would treat me like a lady, would be very romantic, (I accomplished this twice, my first husband died, and I am blessed with a second one), I've been madly in love, I've been abused, I've been homeless, I've seen the world through the eyes of a child most of my life, I've been blessed with three of them, and still I believe that all my troubles, all my tribulations in this life is lessons to be learnt, I thank God that I'm a fast learner, LOL, I love people in general, I love to meet people from different cuturals, different belief's, not to try and change them to see the world through my eyes, but that I may have the opportunity to see the world through their eyes, if only for a moment.

My Life In Words
a webpage of all my poetry, that tells most of my life's experiences through poetry.