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About Me — Dennett
Simply trying to survive.
Medium saved me after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. I don’t recall how I found this community. Perhaps, it found me. When all felt desperately hopeless, this became my home and refuge.
Nearly four years later, I own two publications: Weeds & Wildflowers and R.E.A.D.I.N.G. WAR. Weeds & Wildflowers has been the recipient of my attention while R.E.A.D.I.N.G. WAR has languished, but I plan to change that soon. I’m also an editor for SnapShots and House of Haiku.
By trade, I am a contract bookkeeper, a career that serves me well but is losing its luster. Making rich people richer is not what I want for my legacy.
I am officially a senior citizen and love it. Freedom and creativity often arrive in later years. Thanks to the pandemic, I’ve decreased my weekly business work hours from 50+ to less than 25, leaving me more time to concentrate on my writing and photography.
My relationship with writing began when I was nine. We broke up in my 20s, during an earlier marriage when life was too difficult, and we didn’t reunite until Medium staged an intervention.
Photography was a late-in-life interest. I have almost no technical knowledge, but, as a professional photographer once told me, I have an eye. I see photographic opportunities others miss…
