About Me — Ea Gesika Acaylar Carrera

and why I write

A photo from 2013 of the Author’s cat Gatchieminchippy “Gatchie” Acaylar during one of their vet visits. Gatchie passed away in 2017 due to asphyxia that happened by accident handled by a fresh graduate vet during his vet visit for his colds. Photo by Author

Every time I don’t know where to start but I need to introduce myself, I always say I am CAT-holic. Although it also answers my religion. It says pretty much more about how I adore and praise cats more than anything, which has been who I have really been for the past 2 decades of my life up until I became a wife, a mom, just before the pandemic started.

Photo of Author and Family

QUICK LOOK BACK ON HOW MY WRITING STARTED

Although you may not find me professionally publishing my writing prior to Medium, I had a very early start on pen names when I was 10 for our school paper. However my love for writing started way younger, at 7 I began my first short story. And as much as I would like to keep memorabilia of it, my mom who finds my penmanship so awful threw them away thinking it was all scratch papers.

I found out about Medium when someone from one of the Facebook Groups I was, was looking for a platform where she can express her thoughts about politics but fend off the internet trolls.