A New Beginning, Maybe?

Xiomara Rodriguez is a 72-year-young woman with a dream. She was born in San Juan Puerto Rico and lived there until the age of 27 when she came to Mainland USA. She retired from the U.S. Coast Guard after serving 20 years, ten of which she served as a Special Agent with the Coast Guard Investigative Service. She was the first Hispanic female to become a Special Agent with the CGIS. After her retirement from the Coast Guard, she did many things, but one of her proudest achievements was that on April 1, 2014, she co-founded Tu Casa Latina, a non-profit organization geared toward helping immigrant women, men and children who are victims of domestic violence, violent crimes and human trafficking in Northern Nevada, with immigration help and referrals so they can stay in the USA and build a better life. Since the age of 9, she dreamed of be a writer. She published some short stories and poems in various college magazines, in some online magazines and also some of her poetry as well some of her short stories were published in Nuestro Magazine. She is a wife; and has been married for 41 years, she is a mother of two outstanding women; a grandmother of two and a great grandmother of six. Xiomara Rodriguez studied History and Theater at the University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Sociology at George Mason University in Virginia and Paralegal at the Truckee Meadows Community College. One of Xiomara's favorite books is Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes, but she also enjoys reading books Patricia Cornwell, she believes she has read them all. At an early age she started to read the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, which she believed she had read them all several times, later on she became a fan of Sydney Sheldon, mystery novels, which she again read them all. She enjoyed, Sydney Sheldon fast writing, which helped her developed her own writing style.