: About Me

I'm a 39 year old writer, parent, and pagan. I live in southern Ontario with my spousal unit, and two teenagers. I have two adult children who live on their own, and a teenybopper step-girl who stays with us on the weekends. I'm a budding herbalist, interested gardener (trying to cure that black thumb), and student of Wicca within the Blue Star tradition.

My passion is ...

writing, spirituality

I know too much about ...

can you know too much about anything?

My parents always told me ...

let's not go there, mmmk?

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a writer.

My favorite memory ...

too many to list.

Why I write ...

I write because the only other option is to leap off a tall building in despair.

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

An 80's rock station.

My first job ...

Dickie Dee Ice Cream sales person

My inspiration ...

nature, mostly. And human relationships.

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Ask any writer, and they'll tell you: It's not the actual writing that's difficult, for the most part. It's the actual sitting down to do it that's difficult. Before we sit down to write, we find a million and one excuses not to, and most of those excuses really are just that! Excuses! Developing the discipline it takes to sit down on a regular basis and pound out a poem, story, article, or chapter in a novel, is the greatest gift you can give yourself as a writer. Whether you aspire to literary greatness, desire a profitable freelancing career, or wish only to record your thoughts, these ...

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