tenderdove

My name is M. P. Gonzalez, a High School English and Social Studies teacher. I come from South Texas, but I am a recent transplant to the Dallas metroplex. I have always loved reading and the written and spoken word. I am extremely lucky to be fluent in Spanish, which allows me the luxury of enjoying poems, literature, plays, lyrics, dramas, and music in two languages. I have been drawn to bringing attention to social issues that are happening universally. I don’t think writers or poets on purpose set out to get involve in “sticky social issues”, it is just that writers are born or, are made by having exposed nerves. This is the impetus that makes them grab a pen, or now, a computer to alleviate his or her feelings.  

I do not sit down to write poetry, or other things, unless I have to, and God knows I do try to avoid it. Our words tend to disrobe us as we give birth to them, and the computer screens are like mirrors where 
we see ourselves. Writing is very difficult but, but we know, the power of the word, love and respect it.
As a high school teacher I tried to get my students to love and appreciate what other people have written and what they wrote themselves.

I am a mother of four children, and a proud grandmother of seven grandchildren. My last daughter is in the University at this time.  Fortunately, all my children are avid readers their e-readers rarely leave their hands. 

I love Ernest Hemingway’s quote,  “There is nothing to writing.  All you have to do is sit down at a  typewriter and bleed.”