Experience

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  Author

  • Author

    • 1990 - Present

    I believe that I started writing at about the age of eight or nine, scribbling the verses to songs I'd never heard. I didn't know then that they called it poetry. That soon turned into free-wheeling essays and finally short stories. Most of my early writing was detailed in the pages of ...

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  Gorge Travel

  • Owner/President

    • 1992 - 1999

    I purchased an historic travel agency, along with my sister, in our hometown of Niagara Falls, New York. We spent several years growing the business by leaps and bounds as we followed the emerging trends in online travel. When we began in 1992, we were still writing airline tickets - it was har...

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  Lewiston Child Care Center

  • Owner/President

    • 1978 - 1991

    In 1978, I began a small day care business with 4 children in a rented-out church basement in the sleepy fishing village of Lewiston, New York. Over the next decade, that day care blossomed into Lewiston Child Care Center, in which I, along with my husband, provided Early Childhood Education for...