Creativity has been a part of my life since I was very young.  My mother was a
strong advocate for creativity; coming up with fun games for my siblings and I
to play, and always allowing us to express ourselves in any way that we
wanted.  My creative home environment helped pave the way for me to be
 the self-expressive and talented person that I have become.  As children, my
siblings and I would hold 'talent shows' in our living room that included
other children from the neighborhood; we would make club houses, paintings,
poems, we would dance, sing, and perform; anything that would help get (
as my mother would say)our 'creative juices flowing'.  As a teenager, I
attended several performing arts schools while keeping a vigerous class
schedual and practice scheduals for drama, dance and ice skating shows.  With
this discipline and background it is no wonder why I have fallen into perhaps
the most creative communities I have ever encountered in my life, The
Underground.  Here, I have been blessed to be surrounded by creativity
everywhere I turn... artists of all kinds, musicians, poets, and dancers alike.  Being a part of a community that runs and thrives on individual and