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Enjoy reading my original essays, fiction, and poetry.

Call the Midwife–living passions and callings

What I found fascinating was the different roads the women discovered their ways into midwifery. Time and again words like “my calling”...

Travel reveals avenues of passion…

I’ve been west coast bound for several days visiting my partner who’s been working on a gig. I can think of worse ways and places to...

New York, I’m a bartender!!

I did it!! Two weeks of seven o’clock beginnings and going, going until 1am the next day. Cramming 66 cocktails and drink recipes into my...

Bartending and food colouring

I figure, I’ll take the free bartending class and… Gulp. This is going to be fun, right?? Slinging drinks, making dough, while I await...

Unearthing the Passion Nugget.

I’ve been reading encouraging articles that help point to unearthing that passion nugget. Spring time seems to fuel my soul to unearth...

A Community gathers.

Makeshift altar. This morning, my community gathered with students and crossing guards from the school across the street. I waved over to...

Work slows to a crawl… uncertainty speeds up.

I’ve been so lucky. In the world of freelancing, I’ve been working consistently for the better part of a decade. In that time, I’ve...

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