kinseygirl
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | GA, United States |
| Introduction | I have been an avid writer and poet since I was about 12 when a poem I scribbled for a last minute assignment did well in the writing fair. I thought that was the beginning, but looking back it all started a couple years before when I began writing reports for school. I "hated writing," yet once I got started I had a hard time stopping. I loved to twist the rules of my assignments to write reports I actually enjoyed reading. It was not the writing I hated, but the editing and handwriting each draft. Ah, technology. Having experienced a challenging childhood, I used writing to have a voice when I felt otherwise silenced sweeping the family skeletons under the family rug. We grew up poor to an alcoholic father, drug addict mom and a step dad that raped me. I have insisted on having a voice not only for me, but for other victims of circumstance and made that declaration in my youth as if it were a choice. Throughout the last 20 years it has been an obsession. I've spent over two decades scribbling on napkins and receipts, keeping journals, poetry and now blogging since 2006. I have also spent the last 17 years raising a family, establishing a career and dabbling in my passion. |
| Interests | Writing, Photography, Scrapbooking, problem solving, spending time with my girls, laughing, watching movies and favorite t.v. shows, MUSIC!!! I love music. |
| Favorite movies | The Notebook, End of Affair, Patch Adams, Ferngully, Up, Leap Year, You Again, Other Women |
| Favorite music | Hmm, lately, classic rock, 80s pop, instrumental soundtracks like A Series of Unfortunate Events, Damien Rice, Poe, Nick Cave…these are just some of my latest Pandora stations. My music tastes are very diverse from native american flute to Metallica, country, classic rock, new rock, and everything in between. I love the journey that music takes me on. |
| Favorite books | Edna St. Vincent Millay's Collected Poems, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, On Writing by Stephen King, Lean In, I grew up on Cosmopolitan magazine, anything I can research on the internet |
When you hesitate before hitting snooze on your alarm clock, are you being lazy?
There is no hesitation. I want to find the button as fast as I can to shut it up for 9 minutes!