About Me

Imagine the wind blowing through your hair and the sun softly kissing your face.  A radiance forms around you and slowly you begin to dance along the shoreline.  One by one, your feet begin to create patterns and shapes beneath you.  Without even realizing it, you have created words…

In life, not many stop to think about the small substances that affect our everyday lives. Down by the shore, the sand is a source of life for thousands of organisms.  Most of the organisms that depend on it, gravitate towards the shoreline before they are even born, such as sea turtles.  To them, their relationship to the sand is natural, organic.

More often than not, this is how writers decide what to put on the page; it is their source of inspiration.  For myself, my best writing comes naturally.  It is as if the moment I set my pen on the page it takes a life of its own.  My pen begins to dance and twirl and create beautiful lines out of simple words.

Over the course of this semester, hopefully beyond, I intend to share the words I create while dancing in the sand.  As a writer, I acknowledge the power a simple word has and the need to choose the best ones.  However, sometimes the best words choose us.

Writing should be enjoyable.  So, let’s all go out and dance amongst the gains of sand…

Rita Cinquemani. Freshman at Hofstra University. Shark lover.