The Goal

What mat­ters most is who I am try­ing to become. Every­day I strive to become a com­pas­sion­ate human being with a love of art, human­ity, and diver­sity. I am hop­ing to become a strong role model for my daugh­ter and a much bet­ter mother than my own.

I want to be more.

More than just another mom, another teacher, another wife, another sis­ter. I want to be remem­bered for being unique, hon­est, lov­ing, and intelligent.

The RAW Me

Some­times who I want to be is in com­plete oppo­si­tion to who I am. Some­times fight­ing the urge to be flat out crude and crass is dif­fi­cult. Other times, it is the eas­i­est thing in the world to do, but I choose not tot do it because I would feel cheap. I warn you that if you tend to be sen­si­tive or if you know me in real life, remem­ber this is my blog and I write to clear my head.

I respect hon­esty and sin­cer­ity. I pre­fer lov­ing words spo­ken in muted tones and nat­ural affec­tion. I love life and despite my many com­plaints, I would rather be alive than not. I am a book­worm, and old-time music lover, and roman­tic com­edy junkie. I am addicted to crime shows and spend most days lis­ten­ing to var­i­ous real-crime TV shows.

I love smelling the first rain on the cement.

I like blog­ging and com­put­ers and presents.

But most impor­tantly, I like freedom.

The Pol­i­tics and The Religion

I like the free­dom to express myself, to love, to dis­like, to care, to not care. I like the idea of Amer­ica and I wish that we were all more true to that idea rather than try­ing to clas­sify and put things into a box.

I do not believe in God and can­not stand when peo­ple think that means they should con­vert me. No need; I have read the Bible in it’s entirety and think it is a great work of lit­er­a­ture. I do believe in Karma.

The Fam­ily

My hus­band and daugh­ter truly make me happy. I live for them and despite my strong fem­i­nist beliefs, I do not think this makes me any less of an inde­pen­dent woman. In fact, I think this is what being a woman is about– lov­ing freely and openly.

I have known my hus­band for 15 years. We were friends first, then lovers, then grieving-engaged-parents, then hus­band and wife and now as Pow­er­Par­ents. He is my soul mate and my best friend and I am with him because I am a bet­ter per­son with him. We are con­stantly chang­ing and grow­ing and we have learned that those changes mean that we must always be reeval­u­at­ing and rethink the way that we inter­act with each other.

Our daugh­ter Mya was born 4 weeks early on April 27, 2006 at 3:21 PM. She has given me a whole new out­look on and pur­pose in life. I love watch­ing her, and I find myself laugh­ing for hours on end as she learns about the world. We are a home­school­ing fam­ily and plan to do so as long as possible.

The Read­ing

Well-written words also make me happy. Read­ing an art­fully woven sen­tence is almost as reward­ing to me as well, writ­ing one. I am a writer at heart and there­fore have a love of read­ing. I can find joy from the sim­plest phrase or the most intri­cate Shake­spearean pas­sage and will cry when words are used to con­vey the ulti­mate feel­ing of loss, love, and hope. In other words, I read quite a bit.

The Writ­ing

When my words are art­fully woven, I am at peace.

I have been writ­ing for as long as I can remem­ber. I started out writ­ing poetry and then quickly moved to short sto­ries, arti­cles, advice columns, edi­to­ri­als, reviews, and even erot­ica. I cre­ated and ran an online mag­a­zine called Epiphany a Cel­e­bra­tion in Writ­ing for almost 5 years. I now free­lance at Trav​el​ing​Mom​.com, NYMetrop​o​lista​.com, Moms of Hue, and oth­ers.

The Blog

This blog has gone through many changes. I started it back in 2004 and it was really just about my first year teach­ing and life as a mar­ried woman. Then it became my preg­nancy jour­nal in 2005. Now it’s my life-journal as I strive to be bet­ter. You will find var­i­ous entries about fam­ily, health, teach­ing/edu­ca­tion, and more.

Occa­sion­ally, I write reviews of prod­ucts after being given prod­ucts by var­i­ous com­pa­nies to try, and some of my links are affil­i­ate links and help me pay the bills. I am 100% hon­est in my writ­ing and while I may receive incen­tives to write reviews, I do not accept offers that force me to write any­thing that I do not believe is the truth. For more infor­ma­tion, please read my dis­clo­sure pol­icy.