What About Me?

I was one of those kids who was on the phone with her mom ten minutes after I was left alone at college.

Two nights later I was dealing a game of blackjack to a roomful of complete strangers. We used peanuts from FallFest as chips. I won.

My name is Leslie Ann, but all those goofy kids I met the night we played blackjack call me "LA." My dorm is a bit of a bubble within the bubble of the campus. We do everything together.

The way I approached the relationships in my dorm is similar to the way I approach many things in life: I'm cautious and reluctant at first, but then I put my whole heart in it.

I'm a reporting and comparative literature double-major from High Point. High Point is the furniture capital of the world, but for me it's the place where I became who I am today.

I am a lover of the performing arts with the imagination of a five-year-old. Over the years, I have sung, acted, danced, and played piano, flute and handbells. As a child I would sing for anyone who listened. I wanted to be a big Broadway star.

Nowadays, I'm a writer. I've always been a writer, really. But I came out of the writing closet senior year of high school, when I got a job as a columnist with the High Point Enterprise.

I didn't write hard-hitting news stories. Just things that were on my mind. But even after my first article, which was about how playing Michael Jackson on our intercom the first week of school added to our sense of unity, people were talking.

I want to write uplifting things. For the rest of my life, I want to make people smile and lift their spirits the way I did for that year. My biggest dream is to one day write children's books.

I started this blog because I want to tell about my adventures in a way that inspires others to have their own. That's really all I want in life: to find inspiration that's contagious.




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