candice's Profile

Join Date:

5/1/2008

Pen Name: candice

• Location: Brooklyn
• Name: Tennille Candice Astor
• Preferred language: English
• School: BMCC, Hunter
• About me:

  Before my 2 beautiful children burst into my life I was heavily into reading, writing, music, movies, and the harder-to-do-thing, travelling! This has scaled down somewhat but still remains... I'd love for us to travel the world one day :-)

• My claim to fame: I was in the paper once for breastfeeding my son on the train- I forgot that it was going to get media coverage. It was 'World Breastfeeding Week' at the time so I went out and showed(!) my support. When nursing in public I try not to overexpose, to be as discreet as possible. It also made the evening news for about 30 seconds.
  
  My writing once appeared on the same newspaper, the "Voice of the People" section where I complained about an article there that put down my entire generation, saying we were 'cosseted and coddled'. This was their response to the Woodstock '97 riots in Rome, NY. I guess they liked my complaint b/c they entitled my letter, "Youthful Wisdom". That was decent of them. And it made me find out what 'cosseted' actually meant!
  
  I've been in off-off-off broadway plays so that might count as a tiny margin of a slither of fame, who knows. I didn't really do it for the fame, I just wanted to act.
  
  Last but not least, I once made WEbooker of the WEek in May of 2008. That was pretty sweet. I hope to get something published here and really enjoy checking out everyone's work!
  
  :-)