: About Me

After a ten year hiatus from writing life, I am once again dipping my toe into the wordsmithing pool.

If you were to look back through my aging, yellowy clips, you'd find newspaper and magazine articles, as well as monthly contributions to a small local newspaper. While that monthly paper was small, it gave me experience with deadlines, and interviewing local business people.

You can't buy education like that.

Four months ago, I quit my job in the promotional products industry after twenty years. My mother had just died, and that started me thinking about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. There was only one answer. Write. It's been the only real answer since I was seven.

So here I am, once again risking rejection and seeing reminders that I've gone a bit rusty. Bearing your soul takes courage and determination. That's okay. I have plenty of both.

My passion is ...

Reading and writing.

I know too much about ...

Promotional Products

My parents always told me ...

Lots of things that later came true.

My childhood ambition ...

Since age 7, a writer

My favorite memory ...

Births of my babies....okay, that's 3 favourite memories

Why I write ...

For the love of the words.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Re-reading, 'On Writing', listening to silence.

My first job ...

Babysitting.

My best moment ...

First article ever submitted was published on front page of its section in The London Free Press.

My inspiration ...

My family, my dreams, a beautiful setting, love.

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