Beginnings...
Fresh off my first writers' residency and workshop, I have decided to take the instructor's advice and commit to daily writing and envision myself as a writer. I don't know where this is going to go, but I've used a blog as a vehicle for my words in the past and it worked for me. Here we go!
I'm JD, a wife, mother, researcher, faculty member, and WRITER, born and raised in (east) Detroit, now living in the South. I've always kept a journal, I am formerly an avid reader, and my favorite high school English teacher thought I should go into literature. I, however, grew up in a working class family, and was not interested in being poor or a starving artist. I was also good at science, and so I went to college, then pharmacy school, then into an academic research career. I'm currently attempting to make tenure with two small children. Why add another activity to the mix?
Because it makes me feel alive, that's why. And there's a lot of the rest of my life that doesn't. I'm not interested in easy...I'm interested in joy, laughter through tears, hard work, exploration, introspection. Come along on the ride, won't you?
I'm JD, a wife, mother, researcher, faculty member, and WRITER, born and raised in (east) Detroit, now living in the South. I've always kept a journal, I am formerly an avid reader, and my favorite high school English teacher thought I should go into literature. I, however, grew up in a working class family, and was not interested in being poor or a starving artist. I was also good at science, and so I went to college, then pharmacy school, then into an academic research career. I'm currently attempting to make tenure with two small children. Why add another activity to the mix?
Because it makes me feel alive, that's why. And there's a lot of the rest of my life that doesn't. I'm not interested in easy...I'm interested in joy, laughter through tears, hard work, exploration, introspection. Come along on the ride, won't you?
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