My years are full of experiences and life events that have placed me in a unique position and granted me a wealth of life knowledge. In my first 50 years I have raised 9 children. I have 4 beautiful grandchildren with a 5th on the way. I suffered the most horrific loss of a daughter, and am now playing the role of mother, again, to her 4 year old. My children, and grandchildren, have been, and remain, the most important aspect of my life.
My work opportunities have provided me with skills as a seamstress, a waitress, a bartender, production worker, manager, network specialist, research assistant, archival assistant, flagship publication author, freelance writer, poet, and AmeriCorps volunteer. I currently own a shop on Etsy.com where I sell handmade personal and home accessories.
My shop on Esty came about as a means of supplementing my income after becoming disabled. I have been diagnosed with a little known illness called Ankylosing Spondylitis. The name sounds big but to put it simply, it’s a kin to Rheumatoid Arthritis. The disease is an autoimmune form of arthritis that affects mainly the spine and hips. Most days I manage to get by well enough, but I need to pay close attention to my meds and I must allow myself rest periods throughout the day to help avoid flair ups. Since employers tend to look poorly on letting their employees rest for several hours during the day I’m unable to work outside my home.
As for my education, I opted out of high school and spent my teenage years hitchhiking across the country. To this day I have never regretted those times even though some awful things happened along the way. You may wonder how I was able to do this, well, my father passed away when I was 8. This created, shall we say, a stereotypical angry teenager who ended up in and out of correctional facilities. It was during these “out” periods when I traveled. At the age of 17, my mother passed away and I was emancipated, leaving a Fundamental Christian home behind. Eventually I earned a GED and went to Purdue Statewide Technology where I earned an Associates Degree in Computer Technology. After the market crashed in the early 2000s, I went back to college and completed my B.A. in English at Indiana University South Bend.
Now, you may be wondering how all of this information is relevant to a Hub Pages profile. The way I see it, a writer draws from the sum of their experiences, reaching inward then spitting it all out onto the written page. I strongly believe that who I am as a person is reflected in who I am as a writer, therefore, why wouldn’t this information be relevant? My desire to write has drawn me here where I intend to use my knowledge and experience to create hubs that will be just as meaningful to you as to me. I hope you choose to join me as I venture into my next 50 years. I can only imagine what life has to offer.
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |