As a life-long learner and a writer since she was a little girl, Cecilia keeps learning new things about her craft. Starting out writing poems, she went on to be a sportswriter for her college newspaper, then a feature writer for her college magazine and later a copywriter for several newsletters until she began as a writer for Examiner.com. After graduating from Loyola University New Orleans in 1999, she alternated between working odd-jobs and goofing-off, with a little writing on the side. She plans on taking two more writing classes at The University of Tampa, then she will apply for graduate school in her home state of Minnesota. She would like to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Hamline University in Saint Paul. Cecilia is 61 years old, but she feels like she is just getting started, like her younger classmates. She is an optimist, obviously, who never gives up on her dreams and she would like to inspire other disabled people to do the same.