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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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