User:Janetatwell

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Janet Atwell is a freelance writer and the owner of InspiredWordArt.com. She has worn many hats in her lifetime and from this has a wealth of information from which to draw in her work as a writer.

Atwell has had almost no formal education. A nurse where Janet was hospitalized for a burst appendix taught her the alphabet phonetically. Janet was playing classical music on an upright baby grand piano by the age of 6. She was eight years old when she, her two siblings and mother were moving her piano. She fell down the flight of stairs they were pushing the piano past. The piano landed on her back. She was unable to walk for almost two years. Despite the predictions of several doctors, her father, who was a professional body builder and the men he trained with, not only kept her muscles from atrophying but made them strong. Whenever possible the nurse from the hospital would send the youngster what books she managed to acquire. Using them she educated herself, even teaching herself how to bowl by reading a book. Michigan did not have a special education program in the 1950’s.

Ms. Atwell currently resides in the small town of Neelyville, Missouri. Neelyville is a rural town in southeast Missouri with a population of under 500. It is a poor community, there is little industry in the area and none in this small community. A prominent citizen of the community, Mr. Taylor, has often been known to state, “Janet is an accomplished painter of signs, landscapes and portraits of children. She is capable of building a house on her own, she raises almost all of the foods that are consumed in her home. She is a writer with excellent organizational skills, she is articulate and easy to get along with. She is an asset to this community.”

A former truck driver that had been raised in Michigan and lived in Chicago, Illinois for 17 years. She had met and married a much younger, local boy who was also driving a truck at the time. She has since become a valued volunteer in the area. She founded the community newspaper, 'The Neelyville Star', has helped winterize the homes of the elderly and disabled in the area as well as working for the Nutrition Center serving and delivering meals. She is one of those people that always shows up when there is a need to fill.

Atwell is regularly reminded of things she has written during her time as editor of the community paper she founded. Her monthly column ‘Janet’s Corner’, where she told stories of the silly things she has done in the Aug. issue awarded her with a lot of laughter and many comments. She had confessed to having killed 99 of the 100 new chicks that she had gotten the previous year by feeding them self rising corn meal the first three days that she had them. When she is seen riding with anyone in a vehicle it is inevitable that the person is reminded to not liter as Janet has been known to make her family clean entire sections of roadway and ditches after they have been caught littering.

It is because of her education that when asked about the newspaper she founded, she often stated, “I am not qualified to be the backbone of any publication and I often fear that in some way I am cheating our readers.” Those that look forward to reading her work heartily disagree.

For more of Janet M. Atwell visit http://www.inspiredwordart.com or http://www.soulcast.com/inspiration2jms