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I’m a…Writer | Eldercare worker and CNA | Reader | Mother of a therapy dog named Eleanor Roosevelt | Former tech VP, | Vegetarian Times answer lady, |  video producer, |  museum designer, | short order cook, and substitute wedding hostess | Darn good godmother (and author of Teaching Maggie) | Founder, Shannaghe Residency. 

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Care is at the core of much of my current work. Care in the largest sense: care in family, friendship, the classroom, in justice, in ecology, and in health care. It’s one reason I founded Shannaghe, and why Shannaghe sponsors a fellowship for writing about care. 

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The details: too many degrees (BA, MA, MFA, CNA), live in rural Maine, lead work on ecological issues in the watershed, seven acres, two dogs.  

I continue to see elderly clients.