My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.
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For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
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