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Beyond the Pen
 

Writing is my main gig, but I wear a million other hats as well.  My interests are vast and ever-growing so I definitely needed a section to squeeze some of these other parts of myself into.

I'm nuts about the arts!  I love to see beautiful art; I love to support talented artists; and I love to experiment with different types of art myself.  I've always loved art but it's only within the last two years that I've considered the possibility that I might actually be counted as an artist myself.  I don't know - the verdict is still out and I'm slowly becoming more comfortable sharing my work.

My taste in music is as diverse and eclectic as everything else about me - it would be much easier listing music I dislike rather than music I do like.  One of my favourite things to do is go to see live music - there's absolutely nothing like it. I'm a whore for singing and have just begun to relearn how to play the guitar - this is, of course, all in good fun and any dreams I harbour of rock stardom can wait till I'm fifty and everyone I know has gone deaf. 

I live in one of the most creative cities - it's crawling with artists, musicians, hackers, writers, and other such weirdos, so I feel very much at home here.

I, unashamedly, love the internets and that is where I spend most of my free time.  People may say that's not a good thing and it's no replacement for "real life," but most, if not all, of the things that make my life rich have come to me because of the internet.  That is where I make my connections, find out what's out there in the world, where the proverbial party is at.  I came on here in the late nineties, taught myself code and learned to use graphics programs and from there made myself a personal website, and that's when web design became one of my many hobbies.  I've made many websites since then and went from there to the world of blogging.  The internet is just a world of its own and yeah, I could live without it, but who wants to do that?

I love to read.  Most writers do.  This is what I'm currently reading:

And I try to keep track of the books I've read on my Goodreads profile.
 

To be continued... always.

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