Be Open (More About Me) — Rhonda Marrone

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n married and divorced three times. I raised my kids as a single parent.</p><p id="ae6b">I have a strong liberal arts and language education: a Bachelor’s in English Writing, with minors in Literature and Spanish, and a Master’s in Humanities. It took me forever to graduate. My first college class was in 1992. I finally graduated with my Master’s in 2018. I didn’t go to school that whole time, of course, there were kids, years of no school, and jobs.</p><p id="f8d7">My favorite job was not really a job: I was an AmeriCorps VISTA for 2.5 years. I volunteered in the area of addiction and extreme poverty. I used my education to tell the stories of people who were recovering from addiction to spread hope where there previously was none.</p><p id="8661">Trauma has been a part of my life since I was very young. PTSD has been part of my daily life since elementary school. I have been an expert at survival but not always an expert at living. Writing, especially writing poetry, gives me a way to live, to say what I cannot find a way to say out loud.</p><h1 id="64bc">Be Open Says;</h1><p id="6e96">Thank you for taking our Challenge, Rhonda! :-)</p><div id="dbb1" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/medium-writers-be-open-challenges-you-to-create-be-open-more-abo

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Be Open (More About Me) — Rhonda Marrone

Little Me @ 4 yrs old

So, this is me: when I was a little girl I loved to play in the dirt and ride bikes. I could swing on swings all day and pretend I was flying, then jump out and really fly for a few seconds until I hit the ground. That’s probably why my knees have such bad arthritis today.

I could read when I was 3. No one taught me. I just learned because I loved books. I wanted my mom to read to me all the time and I would sit and look at the books when she wasn’t reading to me. I figured it out for myself.

I love animals. I have always had pets and don’t know what I would do without having a cat or dog, preferable a cat. When I was young we lived on a several different farms with horses, cows, chickens, all those things. I milked cows, gathered eggs, gardened. We didn’t have air conditioning or cable TV or any of those luxuries we think we cannot live without today.

Today I am the mother of three adult children: two young men and one young woman. I have two grandsons by my oldest son. I’ve been married and divorced three times. I raised my kids as a single parent.

I have a strong liberal arts and language education: a Bachelor’s in English Writing, with minors in Literature and Spanish, and a Master’s in Humanities. It took me forever to graduate. My first college class was in 1992. I finally graduated with my Master’s in 2018. I didn’t go to school that whole time, of course, there were kids, years of no school, and jobs.

My favorite job was not really a job: I was an AmeriCorps VISTA for 2.5 years. I volunteered in the area of addiction and extreme poverty. I used my education to tell the stories of people who were recovering from addiction to spread hope where there previously was none.

Trauma has been a part of my life since I was very young. PTSD has been part of my daily life since elementary school. I have been an expert at survival but not always an expert at living. Writing, especially writing poetry, gives me a way to live, to say what I cannot find a way to say out loud.