About Shan:
Who am I?

As a little girl of three I began to read and write. By the time I was maybe 4 or 5, I was introduced to Laura Ingalls-Wilder's amazing book series Little House on the Prairie. Since then I have dreamed of being a writer (and living on the prairie in a covered wagon). I dabbled in it off and on for 20 plus years, at times more seriously then others.

I finally decided to take an active part in "being heard" when the horrible monster Hurricane Katrina hit my beloved Mississippi Gulf Coast and the enchanting city of New Orleans. Growing up on the Mississippi coast and being originally from New Orleans my heart was ripped apart by the destruction that lay in its wake. Fighting every urge to run and try and fix everything broken, I turned to writing to deal with the range of emotions I experienced in the days, weeks and months that followed. After I wrote Katrina ~My Story my husband suggested that I try sending it out so others could read my words. I did and at last count it has been published on over 500 websites and I have been interviewed about it in the Tallmadge Express a local paper to my current hometown in Ohio.

Since then I have started a blog, a website and a lot of other essays and articles and even started my first novel called Love in the Fast Lane, a romance novel that I call a combination of Sex and the City meets NASCAR. It combines my two loves, three if you count the writing part.

I have had 25 articles published to date, including on in the August/Sept 2006 issue of Mississippi magazine. I have had over 15 photos published as well, and I enjoy freelance photography as much as I do freelance writing.

In addition to writing, reading and photography, I enjoy a good wine, a good joke, good friends, and chatting. I am a lot friendlier on the web and am quite shy until I get to know you in person. I believe in a higher power and am still searching for that. And did I mention I like wine.

I am not a supermodel nor pretend to be. I am a real woman, curves flaws and all, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love to don the latest looks, flip through fashion mags looking for ways to make a size 0 fashion style fit at plus size body. I am not supermodel rich either so I am always looking for a way to make it stylish on a realistic budget. It doesn’t mean I don’t splurge now and then either, because I do. I girl just has to be realistic now and then.

I can be sarcastic and have a very dark sense of humor, due mostly to being brought up with Monty Python, Faulty Towers and Mel Brooks.

One day I want to travel the world, making sure to have stops in Ireland, England, Paris, Tuscany, and Rome. If it were up to me I would live in the middle of some European/British/Irish country side on a farm away from everything and just read, write, take pics and drink lots of wine.

I love watching sports, but under my own power, not because I have to. I am a huge fan (or addict depending on how you look at it) of NASCAR. I have thousands of dollars in my collection of cars and memorabilia. I love the Packers mostly because of Brett because his dad taught me how to drive. I also love the Indians and root for the Saints because, well just because.

I also like cars. But the majority of my interest lies in Mustangs. I always dreamed I would own one, and in Nov 2004 I bought a 2004 Anniversary Edition Mustang.

I love to garden, watch birds and do absolutely nothing if time allows. I am inherently lazy and hate house work. In fact I would rather eat on paper plates for life before washing a single dish. I am positive this is because I was force to do too many chores at too young of an age and actually would rather burn the house down at times then clean it. But this doesn't mean I am a slob, just lazy. When I go on one of my OCD rampages you could eat off the toilet should you choose to do so.

I love Winnie the Pooh, butterflies, cats, the feeling of sand between my toes and candles and did I mention wine?

Ok now that I have spewed about me...your turn...