As in life, this website is a work in progress. In it I intend to exhibit my work as an educator in relation to my Master of Adult Education Degree, together with my other professional, volunteer, and creative pursuits. More importantly, I am regarding this website as a portfolio: one that contains documents, profiles, and reflections that emphasize my interest in self-directed learning. This informal approach, which places individuals at the helm of their learning experience, is highly adaptable to a variety of learning circumstances and needs. So regardless of whether I'm learning a new language, learning how to sew, learning how to take better photographs, or learning how to create websites, it is through self-initiative and self-direction that I can achieve the ends I set for myself.

This website-portfolio was created to showcase my academic and professional backgrounds together with my personal interests and activities in a comprehensible way; to facilitate access to information about me for colleagues, potential employers, and others interested in my work; and to ease the process of self-assessment. Creating a website is an exercise I also wanted to engage in. In this website-portfolio, the theme of "limitation to liberation" is explored because it underscores many of my life experiences; therefore, I thought it would be worthy of reflection. It is my wish that this website-portfolio evolves to provide a forum for the sharing of ideas that focus on the adult learning experience through self-directed learning, because I believe that it is an approach that faclilitates collaboration, liberation, caring, and fulfilment. With the wealth of knowledge available, my hope is that those who feel that learning can be all of these will share what you have learned, so please stay in touch....