About me? What to say about me?
I write. I write to give substance; to lend form to the thoughts, the dreams, the images that play in my head like movies; to save my sanity, to express emotion, to move forward.
I read to get lost in the pages of another world; to escape the mundane, the ordinary - and the monotony we sometimes find ourselves in - if only for a little while.
I listen to music. It moves me in ways nothing else can sometimes.
I take care of my two beautiful, intelligent, rambunctious little girls - my own personal pieces of immortality, and glimpses back in time to my own childhood.
I have a passion for photography; for capturing life as it happens; for sharing the world, the way I see it, with others willing to slow down long enough to look.
I love my God, and thank Him every day for all He has blessed me with - both the good and the bad.
I love Love; it comes in many disguises, winding in and out of the human experience, intangible as a wisp of smoke, but chased after like some pirate's buried treasure. I believe we should saturate ourselves in it and strive to practice it daily in one form or another - whether in the privacy of a relationship, a small token of devotion to family, or a random act of kindness for some stranger in need of it.
Laughter is absolutely necessary; in order to survive this life, one MUST learn to laugh, even when it is the last thing we feel capable of doing.
Favourite Movies
Labyrinth, Pride & Predjudice, Life As A House, Gone With The Wind
Favourite TV Shows
The Walking Dead, Life After People, How I Met Your Mother
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Silverchair, Muse, Adele, Better Than Ezra, Coldplay, Colbie Callait, DMB,The Fray, Fuel, George Fenton (The Lover's Dance), Goo Goo Dolls, Bush, Hillsong, Incubus, Johnny Cash,
Favourite Books
Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter, Jewels of the Sun; Tears of the Moon; Heart of the Sea, Sweep, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Shadow Saga, The Vampire Chronicles
Favourite Writers
Anne Rice, Christopher Golden, Nora Roberts
Favourite Games
Mahjonng, Rummy, Poker, Monopoly, Twister (I'm not big into game systems - I'm weird, I know)
Tools of the Trade
My imagination...and my camera and laptop
Other Interests
Sketching the images in my head that I can't get with my camera, reading a great new book or finding comfort in an old one, singing in the shower, and writing down the dreams and thoughts that won't turn loose of me any other way.