"I've always thought of myself as a writer..... ever since I published my first short story at age 11 ---- I've never changed my mind about being a writer, even though I've haven't had anything published since that time..... I am a writer because I feel like a writer, I think like a writer and now I am out of excuses not to write and get published --- my children are grown, my husband is waiting on the other side of the big pond in the sky for me, so now, I will write and publish some of those many ideas I have been bouncing around with for years.... because I am a writer."