About

From the first moment I can remember, I’ve relied on the ability of words to transport me to places far and wide. As soon as I was able to comprehend the written word, I had my nose stuck in a book.

And not only was I a prolific reader, I also liked to write. At the tenderly turbulent age of 13, I had a project I was given 3 months to complete. The night before it was due, I wrote a book that earned me an A+. I believe that was when my great talent for procrastination was born.

I have been a waitress, restaurant manager, landscaper, cement factory worker, bush camp cook, secretary, marketing consultant, editor, operations manager, fund raiser… and all this before college. Just kidding… about the last four.

I didn’t finish high school but I did go back to college as a young adult and received a diploma in computer management. And, with the arrogance of youth firmly in my grip, I started up a computer consulting company. Fortunately for our clients, I had a partner on board who was a computer whiz. Meanwhile, I was the marketing whiz. And I became the marketing whiz because I found that marketing is was a true passion of mine. It revved me up like nothing else could… and still does.

I read everything I could get my hands on, attended every seminar they’d let me into and bothered every marketing guru I could about how to do it best. And I put it all into practice in our small company to test out those theories. Some worked, some didn’t but I learned a lot through the process.

I was then hired on to become an editor of a small business publication. While there I learned everything there was to know about marketing/writing/page layout and design/you-name-it. (Yes, even freeing up the ever-jamming photocopy machine)

After a few fulfilling years there, I decided to jump ship and start sailing my own little craft. I hung up my consulting shingle and hired myself out to a variety of small businesses to devise marketing plans for the various industries they belonged to. Talk about eye opening. And fun!

A few moves later, I found myself as a operations manager in a small non profit. Operations manager is really a fancy way of saying I did it all: the accounting, the newsletter, the database, the website, the fundraising, not to mention staffing and the like.

Since then I have made my living as a writer, sometimes with a marketing edge, sometimes not. And I’ve been blogging and twittering away with wide eyed wonder. You’ve probably never known you were reading something of mine and that’s cool. We can’t all be famous. And that’s not why I do it.

I just think writing the greatest way in the whole wide world to earn a living.  Really.