About
Me
I have three
passions in life: motorcycles, writing and music - not necessarily
in that order.
I've liked motorcycles since a very young age - I used to
go to the corner store around age eight or nine and purchase
Canadian Biker Magazine. No one in my family had ever ridden
a motorcycle.
I have my Grade
12 diploma. Although I do not have a journalism school degree,
I have been a writer all my life - poetry, fiction, music.
I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to travel
extensively throughout North America by motorcycle. This
enabled me to pursue my adventure travel writing.
I have had
the great fortune to meet editors that have taken a chance
on me and helped further my writing career through their
expert and patient guidance, taking my writing from a very
coarse level to one that is refined and still improving.
I am not above learning! Those editors recognized my potential
and gave me the break I needed. I will forever be grateful
to them for taking the time to read my queries and manuscripts,
despite my lack of a journalism school degree. Thank you
- you know who you are!
Accomplishments
Grade 12
Diploma - Midland Secondary School, Midland Ontario
Grade 8 Piano
Diploma - U of T Royal Conservatory of Music program Toronto,
Ontario
Grades I
and II Theory Papers - U of T Royal Conservatory of Music
program Toronto, Ontario
Advanced
studies: four years music instruction in oboe, one year
alto saxophone, one year trumpet, one year percussion
1985 - Hairstyling
and barbering diplomas, Barrie School of Hairstyling
1988 opened
hair salon business
2004 took
Third in portrait class Coldwater Photography Contest
In 2005 launched
music CD, Trails from the Roadgypsy Diaries - collection
of original compositions
Recorded
harmony vocal tracks to Montreal, featured on Canadian
artist Jamie Williams' self-titled CD, released 2006
2007 won
Honourable Mention in Chaudiere-Appalache Region photography
contest
2008 featured
on cover of
Abilities Magazine
2009 featured
in
Fytness Fanatik Magazine
2009 featured
in
Behind Barz Motorcycle Magazine
Clients
Long Riders Magazine
The
Great Canadian Home and Cottage Magazine
Prosthetics Orthotics Barrie
CTV.ca
Boston Globe
Simcoe Business Magazine
(Osprey/Quebecor Media)
Simcoe Life Magazine (Osprey/Quebecor
Media)
Canadian Motorcycle Rider
Motorcycle Mojo Magazine
Canadian Running Magazine
Herizons Magazine
Coldwater Press
inMotion Magazine - Amputee
Coalition of America
Abilities Magazine
The Motorcycle News (Metroland
Media)
Champlain Manor
Birchmere Retirement Residence
My First Bike, 1979 185 Honda
Twinstar
Bike Number Two, 1984 Honda 250 custom
taken 1984
Bike Number Three, 1986 450 Honda
Rebel, taken at Smugglers Notch, Vermont in 1989
Bike Number Four, 1986 Harley Davidson
883 Sportster, taken at borderline between New Mexico and
Colorado in 1995
Bike Number Five, 1997 Harley Davidson
FXD Dyna Superglide, taken somewhere in New Mexico on my
way to Grand Canyon, Arizona , 1998
Same Superglide, painted
Incognito Black -photographed at Matchedash during my music
album shoot, 2005
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by Roadgypsy Innovations. SOCAN. All rights reserved. Unauthorized
reproduction a/o duplication of content in any form is prohibited.
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