Featured Interview With Connie Jordan
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio but lived in a couple of states as an adult. Currently living in California and although I keep leaving this area something always draws me back.
I recently retired from the state of California and I am enjoying my retirement. I have two children, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren – makes me sound old but I will always have a young spirit. I enjoy writing poems/prose discussing world events, life, love and whatever moves me in the moment.
I am a sensitive, thinking, feeling person and I do a lot of critical, analytical thinking and even though it brings me down sometimes I have not yet learned to turn my mind off – maybe that is what death is about – no more thoughts.
I will post my Facebook page below although I have not been active there in a while I keep saying I am going to start back posting.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always been a reader. Reading takes me on journeys my life may not, it gives me insight and sometimes understanding of the world around me as viewed through another’s eyes. I have spent days so caught up in a book that I just could not put down and did nothing else but read for days.
I started writing in high school but later gave it up to live life and raise children but now that I have nothing but time on my hands I have returned to my passion of writing poems/prose.
Sometimes life and the things I see in the world make me so sad, so hurt that I often say writing is my therapy and it does help to have a venue to express certain things and get them out of my system allowing me to move beyond the experience.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love true crime, mystery, suspense, romance, slave stories, poetry and although I do not like the thought of vampires, I did read Ann Rice’s vampire books and truly enjoyed the flow in her writing!!
Terry Mcmillan is another writer I enjoy reading along with Nora Roberts, but then again I like a lot of authors. I sometimes go to the library and just read the backs of books to choose a book that way even if I have never heard of the author, I have read some pretty good books that way. If it sounds good, I will read it!!
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is ‘Matters of the Heart’ which deals with ‘love’ and domestic violence and that inner spirit that eventually will make you realize domestic violence is not love.
Being a victim of domestic violence, I understand that you can justify that act on many different levels and people do and they stay in the relationship but at this point in time I know that staying only increases the attacks because if you allow that by staying, nine times out of ten it is not going to change.
When I was going through my drama, I realized domestic violence was almost an accepted practice as I was asked by police ‘what did you do to provoke this action’ – me with black-eyes, swollen body parts and then to be asked that question…
No one should have to endure violence in their home and that violence has lasting effects on children in the home. Effects they will carry with them throughout their lives.
I have published three poetry/prose books in the year since my retirement and will continue to write for the rest of my days!!
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