chrissm

ABOUT

Location

Hartland Maine USA

Born	3-13-61

Gender

Female

Member

Standard

Joined

July 2005

Interests

Christmas crafts, sewing, a variety of collections; books, albums, old glass. . .

Chrissm is first a mother of four. She has raised them alone for the last fourteen years. Their father walked out of their lives a year after the divorce, then remarried only to kill himself a few years later. She forgave his selfishness and the hurt he caused her and the children just a few short months before his death. Now, she know he has found peace in the arms of His Savior.

She became a freelance writer, doing mostly newsletters, company reports, and erotica, (only because it paid well and raising four children cost a lot.) Her ex-husband died owing her $20,000 in back child support. She never counted on it, but it sure would have made her life and the lives of her children much easier.

Writing was a way for her to stay home, and raise her own children. Now that they are grown, she can concentrate on more productive writing and is currently working on two novels.

Sheıs had Fibromyalgia for nine years, which makes her progress in anything very slow. Her muscles are damaged like shredded chicken, and she says it feels like a stiff neck pain all over her body. With the help of Heavenly Father, she has accepted it and learned to live a modified, but happy life.

She loves God, children, her friends, art, reading, music, interior design, architecture, flowers, animals, video and board games with family and friends, and life. She's a closet auto enthusiast.

She started reading at age five and at age twelve she started to count the books she read. She stopped counting at age 32, when she finished her ten thousandth book. She canıt read music or any foreign language. She canıt comprehend metrics, either.

She loves all kinds of writing styles and techniques. He favorite authors, are Dumas, Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Twain (his quotes, and musings, most especially), Aristotle (Poetics), Carolyn Haywood, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen King, Jean Aeul, Barbara Parks, J. K. Rawlings, John Irving, Dante, Gerald Lund, Lincoln and so on and so forth. One of her fears is dying before she has a chance to read all the books she has on her, always growing list.
Although she has the desire and has tried many, many times, she has never gotten past the second chapter of Moby Dick. (WHY!!) Sheıs a terrible typist.

Her all time favorite novels are the Count of Monte Cristo, and The Stand. The former she read five times and the latter fourteen times.

She began writing with diaries at eight. Of course, at age fifteen they became "journals", and now she calls them "Just Write". She wrote poems to her parents as gifts, when she was nine.

"Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live." Kobe Yamada

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