My Annual Birthday Letter to My Birth Daughter
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8300545/annual_birthday_letter_to_my_birth.html?cat=25
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
RESUME
Terri D Rimmer
wordtrix@hotmail.com
817-923-3293
OBJECTIVE: To utilize my 28 years of journalism experience.
8/2005-Present Associated Content Denver, CO
Freelance Writer - Writing,interviewing
7/2005-11/2005 Happynews.com Austin, TX
Freelance Writer - Writing, interviewing, reporting
11/2002-8/2003 The Ally Newspaper Fort Worth, TX
Freelance Writer - Writing feature and news stories, covering events,
photography.
10/2001-5/2002 Nancy G West San Antonio, TX
Researcher - Researching for freelance writer.
11/1999-3/2000 The Keller Citizen Keller, TX
Staff Writer - Writing, editing, proofreading, covering city government
and school board meetings, features, news, photography.
8/1998-10/1998 Taylor Research & Investigations Dallas, TX
Freelance Writer - Writing, researching, interviewing, reporting,
editing, proofreading.
8/1990-6/1991 Camden County Tribune St. Marys,, GA
Staff Writer - Writing, editing, covering news and features, trials,
photography, proofreading, reporting, interviewing.
12/1988-12/1990 Jacksonville Magazine Jacksonville, FL
Freelance Writer - Writing economic development stories for monthly local
magazine.
7/1989-10/1989 The Clay Today Orange Park, FL
Staff Writer - Covering city council and government beat, features,
editorials, photography, interviewing, reporting, editing, paste-up.
4/1989-7/1989 Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, FL
Editorial Assistant - Assisting Features Department with clerical
work, filing, typing, proofreading, writing book reviews.
4/1988-1/1989 East Cobb Neighbor Marietta, GA
Editor - Responsible for production and writing of weekly
neighborhood newspaper, photography, features, news, county commission
meetings, city council meetings, editing, paste-up.
9/1984-3/1988 The West Georgian Carrollton, GA
Editor - Responsible for all phases of publication, oversaw staff
of 13, photography, features, news, editorials, layout, paste-up.
12/1987-1/1988 Marietta Daily Journal Marietta, GA
Intern - Writing, editing, features, photography, proofreading, covering
meetings and events.
EDUCATION:
9/84-3/88 West Georgia College
Major: Mass Communications, Minor: English. GPA: 4.0 in major.
Served as editor, assistant news editor, beat reporter, staff writer, and
typesetter between 1984-1988.
AFFILIATIONS:
6/2005-6/20006 - American Lung Association of the Central States - Marketer
4/2005-Present - Pancreatic Cancer Action Network - Volunteer
1/2005-12/05 - American Cancer Society - Public Relations
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Received Media Award from Associated Content (2007); Pug article published in Naples Dog Magazine (2006); Received grant from Change, Inc. (2005); Foster care article published by Poewar.com (2005); Adoption novel published by Booklocker.com and listed on adopting.com (2005); Featured in Dallas Voice Newspaper (12/3/04); Life story published in Adoption Week Magazine and Red Pub Magazine (2004); Poem published by Voices In Print Special Edition Book (2004); How to Write Greeting Cards article published by Writers Weekly (2003); Frugal spending article published by Writers Write (2004); Foster care book, Merged Life, published by Lulu (2004); Foster care story published by Adoption Week E Magazine (Aug. 2004); Received grant from PEN American Writer's Fund (Feb. 2002); Adoption Journal published online (2001); Received 1991 Florida Press Association Award; Received journalism
scholarship (1987).
Terri D Rimmer
wordtrix@hotmail.com
817-923-3293
OBJECTIVE: To utilize my 28 years of journalism experience.
8/2005-Present Associated Content Denver, CO
Freelance Writer - Writing,interviewing
7/2005-11/2005 Happynews.com Austin, TX
Freelance Writer - Writing, interviewing, reporting
11/2002-8/2003 The Ally Newspaper Fort Worth, TX
Freelance Writer - Writing feature and news stories, covering events,
photography.
10/2001-5/2002 Nancy G West San Antonio, TX
Researcher - Researching for freelance writer.
11/1999-3/2000 The Keller Citizen Keller, TX
Staff Writer - Writing, editing, proofreading, covering city government
and school board meetings, features, news, photography.
8/1998-10/1998 Taylor Research & Investigations Dallas, TX
Freelance Writer - Writing, researching, interviewing, reporting,
editing, proofreading.
8/1990-6/1991 Camden County Tribune St. Marys,, GA
Staff Writer - Writing, editing, covering news and features, trials,
photography, proofreading, reporting, interviewing.
12/1988-12/1990 Jacksonville Magazine Jacksonville, FL
Freelance Writer - Writing economic development stories for monthly local
magazine.
7/1989-10/1989 The Clay Today Orange Park, FL
Staff Writer - Covering city council and government beat, features,
editorials, photography, interviewing, reporting, editing, paste-up.
4/1989-7/1989 Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, FL
Editorial Assistant - Assisting Features Department with clerical
work, filing, typing, proofreading, writing book reviews.
4/1988-1/1989 East Cobb Neighbor Marietta, GA
Editor - Responsible for production and writing of weekly
neighborhood newspaper, photography, features, news, county commission
meetings, city council meetings, editing, paste-up.
9/1984-3/1988 The West Georgian Carrollton, GA
Editor - Responsible for all phases of publication, oversaw staff
of 13, photography, features, news, editorials, layout, paste-up.
12/1987-1/1988 Marietta Daily Journal Marietta, GA
Intern - Writing, editing, features, photography, proofreading, covering
meetings and events.
EDUCATION:
9/84-3/88 West Georgia College
Major: Mass Communications, Minor: English. GPA: 4.0 in major.
Served as editor, assistant news editor, beat reporter, staff writer, and
typesetter between 1984-1988.
AFFILIATIONS:
6/2005-6/20006 - American Lung Association of the Central States - Marketer
4/2005-Present - Pancreatic Cancer Action Network - Volunteer
1/2005-12/05 - American Cancer Society - Public Relations
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Received Media Award from Associated Content (2007); Pug article published in Naples Dog Magazine (2006); Received grant from Change, Inc. (2005); Foster care article published by Poewar.com (2005); Adoption novel published by Booklocker.com and listed on adopting.com (2005); Featured in Dallas Voice Newspaper (12/3/04); Life story published in Adoption Week Magazine and Red Pub Magazine (2004); Poem published by Voices In Print Special Edition Book (2004); How to Write Greeting Cards article published by Writers Weekly (2003); Frugal spending article published by Writers Write (2004); Foster care book, Merged Life, published by Lulu (2004); Foster care story published by Adoption Week E Magazine (Aug. 2004); Received grant from PEN American Writer's Fund (Feb. 2002); Adoption Journal published online (2001); Received 1991 Florida Press Association Award; Received journalism
scholarship (1987).
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Those They Left Behind Book:
My story's on P. 235 entitled "Tim."
http://books.google.com/books?id=fWkRdSwFnesC&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&dq=terri+rimmer&source=bl&ots=gqxcsDZCqq&sig=ZrxD1KFTB-Y6a9G3iQX1FShHQwA&hl=en&ei=JGweTtKEOuqisQKJsoTZAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBTi-AQ#v=onepage&q=terri%20rimmer&f=false
My story's on P. 235 entitled "Tim."
http://books.google.com/books?id=fWkRdSwFnesC&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&dq=terri+rimmer&source=bl&ots=gqxcsDZCqq&sig=ZrxD1KFTB-Y6a9G3iQX1FShHQwA&hl=en&ei=JGweTtKEOuqisQKJsoTZAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBTi-AQ#v=onepage&q=terri%20rimmer&f=false
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
"When You Lose Me Forever, Read This"
If tomorrow starts without me Terri,
And I'm not there to see,
If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today,
While thinking of the many things we didn't get to say.
I know how much you love me
As much as I love you,
And each time that you think of me,
I know you'll miss me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me,
Please try to understand,
That an angel came and called my name,
And took me by the hand,
And said my place was ready,
In heaven far above,
And that I'd have to leave behind;
All those I dearly love.
But as I turned to walk away,
A tear fell from my eye
For all my life I'd always thought,
I didn't want to die.
I had so much to live for, so much left to do,
It seemed almost impossible
That I was leaving you.
I thought of all the yesterdays,
The good ones and the bad,
I thought of all the love we shared,
And all the fun we had.
If i could relive yesterday,
Just even for awhile,
I'd say goodbye and kiss you
And maybe see you smile.
But then I fully realized
That this could never be,
For emptiness and memories
Would take the place of me.
And when I thought of worldly things
I might miss come tomorrow,
I thought of you and when I did,
My heart was filled with sorrow.
But when I walked through heaven's gates,
I felt so much at home.
When God looked down and smiled at me
From his great golden throne,
He said, "This is eternity. And all I've promised you."
"Today your life on earth is past,
But here life starts anew.
I promise no tomorrow. But today will always last,
And since each day's the same way,
There's no longing for the past.
You have been so faithful, So trusting and so true.
Though there were times you did some things,
You knew you shouldn't do.
But you have been forgiven, And now at last you're free.
So won't you come and take my hand, And share my life with me?"
So when tomorrow starts without me, Don't think we're far apart,
For every time you think of me, I'm right here, in your
heart.
Ruben Perez
If tomorrow starts without me Terri,
And I'm not there to see,
If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today,
While thinking of the many things we didn't get to say.
I know how much you love me
As much as I love you,
And each time that you think of me,
I know you'll miss me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me,
Please try to understand,
That an angel came and called my name,
And took me by the hand,
And said my place was ready,
In heaven far above,
And that I'd have to leave behind;
All those I dearly love.
But as I turned to walk away,
A tear fell from my eye
For all my life I'd always thought,
I didn't want to die.
I had so much to live for, so much left to do,
It seemed almost impossible
That I was leaving you.
I thought of all the yesterdays,
The good ones and the bad,
I thought of all the love we shared,
And all the fun we had.
If i could relive yesterday,
Just even for awhile,
I'd say goodbye and kiss you
And maybe see you smile.
But then I fully realized
That this could never be,
For emptiness and memories
Would take the place of me.
And when I thought of worldly things
I might miss come tomorrow,
I thought of you and when I did,
My heart was filled with sorrow.
But when I walked through heaven's gates,
I felt so much at home.
When God looked down and smiled at me
From his great golden throne,
He said, "This is eternity. And all I've promised you."
"Today your life on earth is past,
But here life starts anew.
I promise no tomorrow. But today will always last,
And since each day's the same way,
There's no longing for the past.
You have been so faithful, So trusting and so true.
Though there were times you did some things,
You knew you shouldn't do.
But you have been forgiven, And now at last you're free.
So won't you come and take my hand, And share my life with me?"
So when tomorrow starts without me, Don't think we're far apart,
For every time you think of me, I'm right here, in your
heart.
Ruben Perez
Sunday, July 04, 2010
The Caspian Alexander Trust for Under-Privileged Animals
Animal organisation
Short on food for thre animals , needs donations urgently
The Caspian Alexander Trust for Under-Privileged Animals
Animal organisation - Cape Town South Africa. Focus on feral cats, stray, under-privileged cats and other animals. Sterilisation, education, re-homing, animal rights everywhere for all animals.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109511464214
Animal organisation
Short on food for thre animals , needs donations urgently
The Caspian Alexander Trust for Under-Privileged Animals
Animal organisation - Cape Town South Africa. Focus on feral cats, stray, under-privileged cats and other animals. Sterilisation, education, re-homing, animal rights everywhere for all animals.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109511464214
Monday, May 31, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Dear Writer:
It's time to see your work in print!
TheNovelette is planning to publish its first book! Our collection of great writing for the Web will include stories submitted to the first four writing contests – Babies, Travel, Animals, and Men. Your entries:
The healing Power of Love, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer-4
Being an Involved Birth Mother, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer
Scammed, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer-3
The Understatement of the Year, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer-2
will be included at no cost to you in this paperback anthology of great creative writing for the Web.
It's time to see your work in print!
TheNovelette is planning to publish its first book! Our collection of great writing for the Web will include stories submitted to the first four writing contests – Babies, Travel, Animals, and Men. Your entries:
The healing Power of Love, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer-4
Being an Involved Birth Mother, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer
Scammed, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer-3
The Understatement of the Year, http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer-2
will be included at no cost to you in this paperback anthology of great creative writing for the Web.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
THE SPOILED UNDER-40 CROWD!!!
If you are 40 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning....Uphill...barefoot...BOTH ways YADDA YADDA YADDA
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that..... I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!
Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd
If you are 40 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning....Uphill...barefoot...BOTH ways YADDA YADDA YADDA
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that..... I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!
Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd
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