I'm a writer and artist, open-minded, free-spirited, live and let live kind of person. I am descended from noble Scandinavians and Acadians, with Mi'kmaq, Italian, Irish, Spanish, and German blood mixed in between. I was raised Roman Catholic but left the church to develop my true spirituality. I found my place for a while among Asatru kin, but I refuse to ever again imprison my soul onto one path. I am fond of Freyja as well as Anubis.
I am a very passionate child abuse awareness and prevention volunteer and children's rights activist. Two of my heroes are Andrew Vachss and Bob Kane, creator of Batman, for their endless work in child protection and child abuse awareness, along with all others in this fight.
My two other heroes are Nikola Tesla for his dream of giving the world what he received to share rather than profit from it, and Giordano Bruno for refusing to hide his knowledge of the cosmos until he was burned to death for standing up for intelligence and wisdom.
My final hero is my daughter, who is my constant inspiration to venture out past my comfort zone to accomplish better and greater things.
My two other heroes are Nikola Tesla for his dream of giving the world what he received to share rather than profit from it, and Giordano Bruno for refusing to hide his knowledge of the cosmos until he was burned to death for standing up for intelligence and wisdom.
My final hero is my daughter, who is my constant inspiration to venture out past my comfort zone to accomplish better and greater things.
ART and WRITING:
My art many times comes from characters I envision in my writing but can be from anything. I have an eclectic taste in all things, and that taste is reflected in the many areas of my artistic talents. I believe in trying every artistic venue once. Many times, I find it isn't my forte. Many times, I find it's another hidden skill. One of my greatest artistic endeavors so far has been teaching art to children.
I have written poetry, sagas, historical and sci-fi fiction, romance, and mystery novels. I have been a writer since I could spell. My imagination seems endless and I find inspiration in everything. Much of my inspiration comes from my own dreams, which are like stories that unfold with either me as the main character or me as a viewer as if the dream were a movie. When I wake up, I write down all I have seen to become a scene, a plot, or even a whole book in some cases. I have a book case full of notebooks and files of such dreams and day dreams waiting for me to finish.
Self-discovery is the most fascinating of all adventures, and writing and art are the best ways, I find, for one to achieve that. Whether I succeed or fall short of what I've hoped to accomplish, I try never to fail in my journey to connect with who I am inside. To me, that is the most wonderful thing about the arts -- the ability to reach inside ourselves and connect with our inner essence and our true identities.
INTERESTS and INSPIRATIONS:
Writing, Reading, Art (fine art, art deco, glass art, monochromatic designs), Photography (my own as well as macro, landscapes, artistic nude), Tea gardens, Unsolved mysteries, Cultural studies, Ancient civilizations, Most -ologies: Psychology, Paleontology, Archeology, Sociology, Theology. Anything, really, that keeps my interest fascinates me. I love to learn and I love chasing down historical mysteries, especially when others have given up or accepted only what they've been told.
FAVORITE BOOKS/AUTHORS:
Isaac Asimov, Poe, Aesop, Jude Deveraux, O'Henry, Sun Tzu, Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird, Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Three Muskateers, Sinbad, Arabian Nights tales, The Art of War, Wild Orchids, Remembrance, I Robot, and the very first mystery book I ever read: The Case of the Caretaker's Cat.
Pirate stories, Greek myths, the Voluspa and Eddas, and reference books about mysteries and the unexplained and all things that pique my eclectic interests.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Three Muskateers, Sinbad, Arabian Nights tales, The Art of War, Wild Orchids, Remembrance, I Robot, and the very first mystery book I ever read: The Case of the Caretaker's Cat.
Pirate stories, Greek myths, the Voluspa and Eddas, and reference books about mysteries and the unexplained and all things that pique my eclectic interests.
"You cannot walk the path until you become the path itself" ~ Buddha
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
~ Tao Te Ching
~ Tao Te Ching
"Drop all burdens.
The higher you want to reach,
the less burdened you must be." ~ Osho
"When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised." ~ Sosan
"Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack." ~ Unknown
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." ~ Andre Gide
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." ~ Buddha
"My brain is only a receiver. In the universe, there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists." ~ Nikola Tesla
"To really know yourself, first you must forget who the world has told you to be." ~ Unknown
"A wolf does not concern itself with the opinions of sheep." ~ Unknown
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything." ~ Albert Einstein
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of existence." ~ Nikola Tesla
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"Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack." ~ Unknown
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." ~ Andre Gide
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." ~ Buddha
"My brain is only a receiver. In the universe, there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists." ~ Nikola Tesla
"To really know yourself, first you must forget who the world has told you to be." ~ Unknown
"A wolf does not concern itself with the opinions of sheep." ~ Unknown
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything." ~ Albert Einstein
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of existence." ~ Nikola Tesla
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