I work as a free-lance writer.  My research entails one-on-one interviews, online investigation, hard-copy reading, online courses and attending workshops/seminars.

My writing has been published in Equinox, Glow magazines and four separate anthologies. To date, 14 of my scripts have been produced.  I've been hired to write business plans, employee manuals, website text and business pamphlets.  I have co-authored three publications for Employment Ontario and the Ministry of Training Colleges & Universities and recently released my first fantasy novel in e-book.  Currently, I am contracted by Forward Thinking Marketing and Media to write articles for OVhealth.ca and Ottawa Valley Business.

 Called a "perpetual student of life," my areas of expertise are:

* Business, workforce development & job-related issues

* Health & Fitness

* Interpersonal skills, relationships and family

* Self-improvement

* Communication, conflict resolution

* Emergency management foundations

* Writing for non-fiction, fantasy and film

* Theatre, stage and film acting

* Non-for-profit, event co-ordination and working with volunteers

* Personal Finances

* Religion, spirituality, supernatural phenomenon, etc.

Aa an avid adventurer, my travels across Canada, Switzerland, Italy, England and the Dominican Republic have given me many wonderful experiences to help broadened my mind and added greater depth to my skills.

I am recommended as: “Easy to work with, professional and well organized!” (Matthew Cherry, Owner of Nature of Design) and have been told by readers that my articles are very helpful, well-written and easy to understand.

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PRAISE AND FEEDBACK from Helium Readers...

Victims of Abuse: When Enough is Enough ( www.helium.com/items/436585-victims-of-abuse-when-enough-is- enough)

* Just Outstanding and very passionate - and truthful. Lots of women in abusive relationships need to read this. - from H.P.

* I admire your courage and your honesty. I understand what you are saying about putting on your oxygen mask first. But I also believe that you need to leave the door ajar, so when she is ready she has a friend to turn to, because loneliness and isolation can make people do crazy things. Good luck and well done for having the strength to push through the muck:-) - from J.W.

Reflections: Taking the Lord's name in vain (www.helium.com/items/467290-reflections-taking-the-lords-na me-in-vain)

* I love your creative approach: how to use the occasion as a beneficial reminder! And I admire your way of turning the exclamations to an open and wholesome acknowledgement of God in such circumstances ... if even one reader occasionally thinks of their Creator now with gratitude and humble dependence in their moments of strongest delight because of having read your words, then you will have accomplished something very worthwhile (in fact I am sure that will touch many more people than just one.) Thanks for a healthy, refreshing, enjoyable (and amusing!) read. I'm very glad there's such a person as you, sharing such a constructive approach in life. - from G.K.

The Ten Commandments (www.helium.com/items/450816-the-ten-commandments)

* Your parents should be very proud of you. You started off with "respect" and you are right on. Good article. - A.N.

Poetry: Dedication to women (www.helium.com/items/1279248-poetry-dedication-to-women)

* Your dedication to women poem was amazing! I am curently holding the number two spot and after reading your poem, second seems well deserved. You truly wrote an amazing thing. - from C.J.S.

How to Tell if Someone is Lying to You (www.helium.com/items/767299-how-to-tell-if-someone-is-lying -to-you)

* Holy Smokes! I really found this article helpful. I liked how you stated in the end that it is not an absolute but to gauge it with what you already know about the person. Great work! - From L.C.

What Your Facial Features Say about Your Personality (www.helium.com/items/1615526-how-to-read-faces)

* Informative and oddly accurate in a way. I enjoyed it. - From G.E.B.

My passion is ...

Living fully

My favorite memory ...

Laying in the sunshine, breathing in the beautiful scent of my cat's fur (... I try to re-create this situation as often as possible)

Why I write ...

"The truth is that as man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do ..." - A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula Le Guin

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

The Way to Happiness

My best moment ...

Realizing that even when stripped of all beliefs and identity, I continue to Be

My inspiration ...

"The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Dedication to women

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Woman is a powerful instrument. Kingdoms have been built and nations formed because of her. Bards and Minstrels have written a legion of Songs and Poems for her. Masters have bent their tools to the task of capturing her beauty. The Song she sings is one of Peace and Love. It calms the savage beasts ike a breeze on a warm summer day. However, Kingdoms have been destroyed and nations conquered because of her. When a Woman's song no longer glorifies the bounteous Love around her, peace is lost, hearts are broken, and lives are laid to waste. Her beauty becomes a mask to disguise the Chaos an...

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