I started liking my life even if it’s not perfect.

I appreciate my life. Sometimes all of the things that glitter about other people’s lives cause us to feel like they seem to have everything because they have all of these things I don’t have. They seem to be the ones that have what seems to be everything. I have this renewed appreciation for my own life. Once I started to like myself again after I wrote my eighteen-page memoir “Tale of three half-sisters” as a part of my Advanced Seminar: Memoir Workshop class with Dr. Giunta. She is such a sweet kind person and she had conferences with me in her office and shared things with me giving me advice about how to write a memoir. She supported me and took me seriously as a writer. I admire her so much. She’s Sicilian American and taught at NJCU for over twenty years. I was so happy and so impressed with the way she teaches her memoir writing workshop classes at NJCU. I’m happy to be one of her former students and she’s coming back to NJCU in January 2020.