I am Mariam. I have always wanted to write. Be it short stories or poems. It started when I was a teenager as I used to read those Point Horror thriller fictions and English literature classics. I used to make up stories in my mind while trying to fall asleep at night time. I wrote a few poems and short stories here and there in my teens.<\/p>\n
Then serious high school came and my love for science and everything about the human body grew until it engulfed my mind and decided I wanted to be a doctor. My parents both wrote in their spare time which always made me wonder why I am not writing as well.<\/p>\n
Then of course there was medical school and even trying to think about wanting to write something became a thing of the past. I went through this period of my life where writing just wasn’t important anymore.\u00a0 I had to graduate and become this family doctor that I aspired to be. I then had to work 80hr weeks during residency with just about enough time leftover for sleep and food.<\/p>\n
Later, getting married and being blessed with three children meant I had to cleverly find ways to spend enough time with my kids so as not to feel guilty but also have to work so as not lose the career that I have spent half my life preparing for.<\/p>\n
Then 2020 arrived. I became pregnant with my 4th baby and discovered he would not survive due to a chromosomal anomaly. In addition to that painful news, we got hit by the pandemic. I lived with this and wrote my first book whilst I was 7-8mths pregnant. Sure enough, I had a stillbirth and by then my story was complete. It was a children’s book as you likely know by now, short and sweet.<\/p>\n
The story is not inspired by the pregnancy but rather the pregnancy brought out a change in my mental state that drove me to write. Feeling so close to my children during this time was inspiring (especially my middle space-loving music crazy child).<\/p>\n
Thank you for reading and being here. I hope we get to know each other better as we move on. I will share some of my poems and other works here. I will write my blogs here and I apologize in advance if I brag at times. We all need to brag from time to time.<\/p>\n
This summer will be extra exciting. Your children will have a book on their shelves worthy of an imaginative out-of-this-world journey. That I can promise.<\/p>\n
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