Doughy, dumpy, and droopy but dauntless and otherwise technically inept woman seeks readers willing to look beyond her physical features and miserable mechanical skills to read her words.
Are you willing to consider the qualities that make you look beyond surface rubble for the luminous interior?
Apply within your own counsel.
Just a Thought 74
Painting Old Woman Reading by Yehuda Pen courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Sharon Lynne Bonin-Pratt began her writing career the way so many others have done: by first doing everything else. Winning entries in grade school art, story, and essay contests convinced her to become a writer, but the real world intruded in adulthood and demanded she pay bills, raise kids, be a contributing member of the community. Along that rutted path she worked in the commercial art field designing patterns for surfer shorts, bikinis, and Hawaiian style shirts, taught after-school art through a city recreation program, and structured an art curriculum for three private schools. Ten years ago the writing muse, struggling to breathe in letters to friends and art articles, found its way to the surface. In a two-week period Shari wrote 60 pages of her first historical novel, and didn’t stop for three years. By then a second book demanded paper – OK, computer space – and now the third is in final revision stage. Of course, final revision is two words with a long shadow and a little footprint. Some folk claim they will write when the floors get vacuumed, the family accounting completed, the new garden planted. Shari is proof that all those things can be successfully ignored but not the urge to write. Her fiction explores human relationships, revenge, rage, forgiveness, redemption, and all the labyrinthine quandaries that mess up otherwise perfect lives. She resides in Southern California with her husband who’s learned to vacuum but not to cook. And the garden needs help.
Sharon Bonin-Pratt's Ink Flare 
Comments on: "Employment Opportunity" (21)
Clever.
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Thank you, Peggy.
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You made me smile.
I know you don’t follow Twitter, but I tweeted!
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You know my story, Jenna. Maybe I’ll get a bite. (Inside joke.)
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I used to work with a man who was naturally gifted at selecting our lifeguard candidates for pool management. He saw their potential at times when I couldn’t. Love this perspective, Shari.
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It is a matter of perspective, isn’t it? Thanks for the astute comment, Terri.
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What does it pay?
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Ha ha ha. You’re funny.
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Good chuckle to start the morning with 🙂
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But you didn’t say if you were hiring…😀
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Lol – was applying myself 🙂
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Oh no – I have competition?
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Count me in! 😀
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You hiring – or looking for work? 😀
Actually, you don’t fit the profile – you’re too young, too beautiful.
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LOL! Thank you, Shari! But give it a few more years. 😉 I’ve just heard a woman say that gravity increases with age – if only Einstein knew! 😀
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You’re funny, Sarah – and I’ve heard that Einstein had a sense of humor as well.
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I would never have guessed to have something in common with Einstein! 😀 Hehe! 😉
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I don’t think too many of us would. 😀
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Love the humour and the juxtaposition of a Want Ad with the painting! Really made me do a double take – and then consider this very weighty issue of image & perception; certainly food for thought!
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Thank you, I appreciate your comment. On the surface, it’s just a silly scribble. But it reflects the shallowness of modern culture that dismisses people without seeing their worth.
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Smiling
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