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Jessica Gale Friesen
"I love to write, and I have been embracing this passion of mine through my blog. This space is a creative corner for me to share my thoughts and experiences across a wide range of subjects. If there is a topic you would like me to explore, please let me know." - JGF
Personal

A Man, A Coffee Shop, and My Safety
It doesn’t matter if I was wrong.
Recently, I had an encounter with a man that made me uncomfortable. It’s been a long time since something of this nature has occurred.
I’m no longer a young woman. ...
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Pride & Diversity
We all have the right to safety. It’s just after 6am on a Saturday and I’m sitting on my back porch. Coffee in hand, heavy blanket on my lap. It’s a cool May morning.
I can hear the hum of the neighb...
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My Sanctuary
The place that brings me peace.
It’s just after 6am on a Saturday and I’m sitting on my back porch. Coffee in hand, heavy blanket on my lap. It’s a cool May morning.
I can hear the hum of the neigh...
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Being A Business Owner: The Ability to Pivot
If nothing else, the one thing that Covid has really taught me as a business owner is the importance of the ability to pivot.
I had big plans for 2020.
I was supposed to be going away to the Mediter...
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Living Wage Employers - A Decision to be Supported
Recently, Ontario celebrated "Living Wage Week" - a week dedicated to celebrating Living Wage employers, promote paying a Living Wage, and announce the coming years newly calculated Living Wage.
Two...
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What it’s Like to Go Viral
If you read my blogs regularly, you already know that I’m a business owner.
I’m in petroleum — gasoline retail and delivery.
It happens often that I have customers complaining about the price of fu...
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The Secret to Successful Writing
I’ve been writing on a platform called Medium for about six months.
Six months of writing about 2–3 pieces a week. I publish to my website and Facebook page on Mondays and Thursdays, so there are no ...
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Permanently Disfigured and Brutally Deformed
In June of 2016, I received a strange phone call at my office. It was a representative from Harper’s Bazaar magazine, and they wanted to talk to me about a photoshoot.
I’ll give you some context.
In...
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Writing - Passion Ignited
I have always had a passion for the written word.
As a child, I was a bookworm in the truest sense. I could curl up for hours with a book, lost in worlds that allowed me to experience lives much diff...
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Beverly Alexander
Ontario, Canada
Beverly Alexander
Ontario, Canada
Beverly Alexander
Ontario, Canada
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