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…a desire to be what, when ye’re all growed up?..a Writer?… are yeez mad, boy?…

Seumas Gallacher's avatarSeumas Gallacher

…fireman… footballer… film star, like those strutting their stuff on the silver screen at the local Dockside Govan Odeon Cinema saturday matinees in Glasgow… all featured large in this ol’ Jurassic’s ‘whaddya-wanna-be-when-all-growed-up,-boy?’list before the age of twelve… the onset of teens brought a new set of WURK ambitions… drummer in a ‘beat group’… turf accountant (Glasgow parlance for a formal gambling bookmaker, ‘coz they always had money,)… and still, footballer…

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…but as my compatriot of a coupla hundred years ago, the incomparable poet Rabbie Burns, said, ‘the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley’… and ‘agley’ went all the prior ambitions when I left school at the age of fifteen, the doors of the mighty Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank opened to embrace the future Financial Lord of the Universe… the young, callow, albeit numerate, Master Gallacher… fifty years later, that…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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