I have been writing since I was seven years old. Every grade school reporting period my teachers suggested to my parents that I write more. One of them even said that I should write poetry! I learned all this one day about eight years ago when I was going through some old papers and found my second and third grade report cards: in my youth we didn't read what our teachers wrote to our parents. And my parents never told me what the grownups talked about. I wrote because I enjoyed it, and never knew that it was 'a calling'.
I wrote letters, I journeled, I read the authors that appealed to me. A more...
