Gera
Since I can remember, I've had notebooks, pens and a camera within 3 feet of me at all times.
Photographer
It's in the simple things where I find the most beauty. My first career aspiration was to be a photojournalist for National Geographic. This cute fellow was in my backyard and I had a fortunate opportunity. It was thrilling to capture him! Most of my photography reveals my joy of taking in the splendor of creation and admiring The Divine Design of all that's around me. Every day is a good day for a photo safari and I'm thankful to live in the Pacific Northwest now with so much wide open space.
Writer
The other day I was cleaning out a closet and found a huge blue Rubbermaid tote that held much more than I remembered. Inside I found a few copies of the "Saint George Express" from grade school. I forgot that my friends and I convinced our teachers that we should have a student newspaper. Nestled inside were numerous journals and my childhood prose - so many captured moments that I started scribbling down since I was about 8 years old. I was the Features Editor of both my high school and college newspapers. Technical writing, memoir writing, prose, poetry and fiction and many funny notes and love letters to my daughters were in the cache. Writing has always been a part of my life in some fashion or another and is a core part of who I am.