Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:30:43 EDT From: FrncesReza Subject: Fill: INTRO I have broken protocol and I haven't even been here a full day yet.....sorry! I didn't send an intro on myself, so here it is! My name is Nikki, and I am a thirty-five-year-old mother of two -- a boy , six and a girl, seventeen. I have attended college, but dropped out to have my son. I hope to return one day and finish my English degree (I have about a year left). I was a Navy brat, traveled a lot and eventually settled here in this Navy town (Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA area). I have been writing since I was a child, but have never had anything published. I am half Filipino and half Mexican and would like to learn more about my heritage (both sides) and apply it to my writing (just one of my goals in life!) I have just recently gotten up the nerve to consider submitting some of the stuff I have written, but am still a little shaky about doing this. I have written nonfiction (mostly personal experience essays), fiction (suspense), and a lot of poetry. This is the first time I have ever joined a writer's mailing list group and am excited (and a little scared I must admit) about having anyone outside my family read and critique anything I have written.