I come from a background that consists of a combination of a 30-year career in Social Services -- specializing in abuse and trauma issues, as well as life skills and life purpose focuses, to years of being a board member -- with writing experience that includes a 7-year monthly online column and most recently, a 6-year relationship with an in-print community newspaper where I've accumulated a list of approximately 500 submissions. Finally, I am in the process of pulling together years of material -- research, documentation and creative writing -- for a fictional trilogy. My publications here will reflect this combination. I may even share the crazy, personal stuff that influenced and parallelled the professional experience. How can I not? I do hope you enjoy.