About the Blogger

I’m a freelance reporter, writer (memoirs and romance), actor, model, and figure skater – however, my skating is on hiatus.

This blog contains posts about health and wellness, politics – and stories ranging from emotional to cerebral.

My background: I’m a Creative Communications graduate with a major in journalism from Red River College Polytechnic. After graduation, I accepted a 10-month contract with Shaw TV Edmonton as a broadcast reporter and producer, and I relocated from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Edmonton, Alberta.

Before the end of my contract, I chased the Edmonton Journal’s sports editor and became their freelance figure skating reporter. Kaetlyn Osmond, Ravi Walia, Taylor LeClaire, Jessica Gosse, Ben Ferreira, Lisa Sargeant, Lance Vipond, and Debbi Wilkes were a handful of people who gave interviews. When I offered to write about other sports, I found myself in a press box, covering the University of Alberta Golden Bears Football team, and other local football teams.

When I returned to Winnipeg, I worked on contract for 680 CJOB, and then Chris D, covering the 2014 and 2022 Manitoba Civic Elections.

In 2014, I moved to my hometown of Arborg, Manitoba and became a freelance reporter and photographer with Interlake Publishing, taking a short hiatus to run in Arborg’s 2015 by-election for councillor.

While in Arborg, I presented a social media plan to the Town of Arborg council, becoming the first (and only) social media strategist for Arborg, the RM of Bifrost-Riverton, and the Arborg (now Central Interlake) Chamber of Commerce. I was also the first social media strategist for the Arborg and District Multicultural Heritage Village from 2016 to 2019.

I’ve been a non-union actor since 2005, and I trained at Onalee Ames Acting Studio in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Over Zoom, I’ve trained with Rogues West in Vancouver, British Columbia under Christiane Hirt, and Company of Rogues under Joe-Norman Shaw in Calgary, Alberta. In July 2023, I shot my first commercial – which ran for a year. I’ve appeared in several movies and true crime documentaries, and I appeared in CTV’s Spencer Sisters in June 2023.

Pageantry is my new passion. In July 2022, I competed in Regal World, an international virtual pageant, placing 2nd runner up in the Ms. division. Through the All Canadian Pageant system, I’ve won numerous titles for photo submissions from 2022 to 2025.

(Fun fact: I was a Production Assistant for APTN during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and a videojournalist for iTV Winnipeg during a semester break in college.)