: About Me

For several years I worked as a full time professional freelance writer, having had many articles published in different periodicals (Chicken Soup for the Country Soul, USAirways Magazine, Let's Live, Orange Coast and more).

I also developed and taught Creative Writing courses and How to Get Published courses for different colleges and other businesses.

Then one day a couple of years ago I just got burned out with the whole business. Now, thank goodness, my interest in writing has reared its creative head and I'm excited again about putting pen to paper (or, in this age, fingers to keyboard). I am doing online work for now, but I'm also working on a "cozy" mystery set in the Smoky Mountains.

As for my other interests, since I love books, I have sold books online for several years now and have developed a lot of good information about different titles now. I also like reading all types of different genres. I like metaphysical topics, anything to do with writing or good literature, books (as already mentioned), good art, "cozy" mysteries, mountains, some crafts, holistic health, dogs, animals, pets, and basically anything that can make me stop and say, "Hmm, I did not know that" (which happens a lot).

We have two dogs we adopted from the Humane Society, one that was supposed to be a huge German Shepherd..only he turned out to be part Pug and weighs about 50 pounds (although he thinks he is a German Shepherd) and one that was supposed to be a 40-pound Shar-Pei, only by the time she was six months old she turned into an 80 pound red, lanky Lab with a wrinkle across her forehead. They're lovely dogs, although they are sure that they're human and seem to have no earthly idea that they are dogs, and I wouldn't trade either one for the world.

In the meantime, I work fulltime still with my online sites for selling books and I've now added ongoing writing projects. Thus, my interest at this point in Helium.

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I personally think cell phones are one of the world's greatest inventions. However, I'm not always so crazy about the attached long-term contract or plan that often comes with the purchase and daily use of a particular cell phone. Not happy with the cell phone contact you have now? There may be a way to legitimately get out of your long-term cell phone plan. The first thing I did to get out of a costly plan was to visit my cell phone company's offices and talk directly to a representative. It helped, too, that this employee had worked for a long while in this industry and knew all the tric...

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