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          I was born in Northwestern Ontario  at the height of the baby boom, the second of six
children in a working (poor)  family. I spent my formative years in Saskatchewan (ages 2 thru 6) in the  custody of my grandparents, living as an only child in an Ozzy & Harriet  type household. After my Grandpa Bill’s death on my sixth (6) birthday I was  returned to the custody of my parents in Thunder Bay. Following a challenging  childhood and a mis-spent youth, I married a lovely young man from the  neighbourhood. A decade  later (as with many young marriages) we had grown up  and grown apart. It was only a few months later that
I started dating the man  who would become my second husband. With him, my daughter and I spent a summer  backpacking through Europe and Britain. We moved to Calgary for several years  and when we moved back to southern Ontario, Georgina stayed behind to build a  life of her own. The thing I missed the most in those early days of separation was the laughter; George and I share a quirky sense of humour and when we are  together it seems like we are always laughing about something. In southern Ontario my husband went to law school and we had our two babies… now
 wonderful young adults. After 13 years together that marriage ended. I was devastated it took years and two bouts of clinical depression to completely recover.
          I have always loved learning and since I was 19, I have pretty much always been in at least one continuing-ed class or another. After my second divorce I went back to university to get my degree. First I took a degree  in psychology, which I thought would land me a job in human services and make use of my gift for helping troubled people. Because I attended school year round  I finished that degree in only 3 years, so I went back to finish a degree in  philosophy which I had started in my 20s. Focusing on ethics and contemporary  moral issues, it satisfied a personal goal, with little marketable value. I  encourage young people to go to college and get job specific training… it is the way of today’s world the degrees can come later after you have better career focus.
       Due to government funding cutbacks in Ontario, there were no jobs in the social service sector, so I spent the next decade as a single mom, on and off assistance, working whatever minimum wage job I could land. During  that time I attempted starting a couple of businesses
(divorce management counseling &  designing stylish clothing for handicapped ladies), both of which failed because I was more interested in helping people then in making a profit, lol. 
        Then, in 2005 when my youngest went away to school… I returned to Alberta to live with my oldest girl and find work in social services. This was  the beginning of a new life. I volunteered at the DI (Calgary Drop-In and Rehab  Centre) which I loved so much that I begged them into giving me a job less then a year later. After 3 years I created
Angels of the
Road
… which  I guess could be described as
extreme outreach. I  wanted to understand what it would take to better help my clients move forward with their lives. Living among the street people, homeless and poorest of Canadians has given me an opportunity to practice freestyle social work, which is marked by a lack of script or agenda. Freestyle social work involves being present in the moment and in the client’s life as needed,  listening to the other person (without judgment) and doing what you can, when  you can to, help them move forward, even if it is only in baby steps. Now that I  have spent 2 years practicing like this I doubt that I could work any other  way. As for the  future I will continue to use my gifts to help anyone who needs me. My dream is  to open a spiritual healing where everyone can come together to share their energetic gifts as equals. So I guess I’m not planning to retire anytime soon. 
          Thank you for your interest in  my biography. That is my life ‘til now, but there is much left to be  written.
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