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The Purple Lady was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She credits her eclectic taste and talents for music, art, and writing to her distinctive upbringing by her parents, a fiercely dedicated-to-his-family carpenter and a music-adoring nurse whose alter ego was a grammar aficionado who never lost at Scrabble.

Current inspirations include but are not limited to: Joy Cultivation, Surviving Divorce Gracefully, Single Parenting When All Your Children are Your Height or Taller, Stopping to Smell the Roses Even Though You Have ZERO Time To Do So, and of course All Things Purple.

And if you couldn't tell, those inspirations are probably going to be titles of upcoming books.

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The Purple Lady I don't really identity with the concept of writer's block because if I don't know what to say, I default to writing about not being able to write. Th…moreI don't really identity with the concept of writer's block because if I don't know what to say, I default to writing about not being able to write. There's actually a poem in This Phoenix Speaks for proof. Look it up. You might break your writer's block trying the exercise out! (less)
The Purple Lady Write. Just write. Keep writing. Read other writing: books, poems, blogs, newspapers, magazines. And then think and write.
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incandescent you




















How can you know who you are? 

In your beauty and your strength.

You are lux et veritas. 

 

Seek forever for the truth. 

Despite losses on your way,

Hold to love and truthfulness.

 

Be light—wish upon the stars—

As God reaches for you at length—

Ever-reaching—at full cost—

 

A cost worth every pain—

God’s divine gift to this world,

Entirely

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