My entire adolescence and into early adulthood I kept a diary. I would feel guilty when it had been days since my last entry; however once I married I stopped writing. I am not sure if I stopped because I was in fear he would find it and read it, because I never had the time, I no longer had exciting and juicy secret adventures in my life, or simply that I now had someone to share everything with. Growing up I was a total book nerd, I wanted books for my birthday, Christmas, and my favorite time of year was the book fair. We also had the very exciting bookmobile; I know some of you may be too young for that. Once I became a mother of more than two children my reading experiences have been limited to cook books, magazines, newspapers, and the vast amount of children's books we have accumulated. "Kiss me I'm Perfect" counts as reading doesn't it; especially if I have read it 300 times?
Growing up I had a secret hatred for English, don't get me wrong there were aspects in which I craved for more of. For instance spelling; I was a three time State Spelling Bee Champion; I despise when others use incorrect grammar and I loved writing essays and poetry. My enemy was conjunctions, prepositions, interjections, and whether to use a comma, colon, or semicolon. To me it was as useless as Algebra is to everyday life now. Amazingly I always earned an A in English! My English teachers were unlike any other teachers, they were always kind, patient, and had a love for teaching that flowed from every pore of their being. They had such a softness about that them that set them apart from other instructors. My civics teacher locked us out of the room if we were late and taught by fear and intimidation.
I think the first time I really enjoyed writing was when one of my 8th grade English teachers submitted a Haiku I had written to be published. From then on I had many writings published, my greatest accomplishment was being published in "Who's Who among American High School Students", I actually earned a scholarship from that essay.
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