Laurel Kasemodel Kashinn

I'm a serial family entrepreneur, self-employed since 1993 except for a 15-month stint as working part-time at a public library 2014-2015. That was really hard to go back to punching a time clock!

My current business is Write Stuff Resources: I am a professional résumé writer. I also obtained my designation as a Certified Ghostwriter from CSULB. But I decided in late 2020 to shift my focus to helping people with their resumes. Much bigger need for that. Am creating a course.

That... PLUS...am in the process of launching a new art busines in the summer of 2021 with my husband. Very excited about it, more to come on that soon!

I have a BA-Journalism from UW-Madison where I worked as a producer and news stringer for Wisconsin Public Radio. My expertise include book publishing operations, marketing, ghostwriting, editing, direct marketing, public relations, graphic design, and newsletter and magazine editing. Met my soul mate Anthony in September and married in December, 1986; was Chrismated in 1999 and we remarried in the Orthodox Church on our 25th anniversary in 2011 . . . Marriage gets better every year!

After HS I lived in Madison, DePere, Hartford, Port Washington, Town of Grafton/Stonecroft Village, and now Cedarburg.

I've always been a very spiritual person, seeking deeper knowledge and understanding of human potential and our spiritual nature, ever since I was given the gift of a premonitory dream a week or so before my dad died when I was 10. Being a super-Aquarian (you know we all were born in the year of an amazing astrological event), I've always been very open to all kinds of ideas, and spiritually I investigated a wide range of religious traditions, including Buddhism, Taoism, the leading edge what publishers call "new age" explorers, and dated a wonderful Moslem man for almost 4 years. I always felt and now I know for sure I was guided throughout my life. My spiritual study took a profound turn with a series of incredible experiences at my father-in-law's death and funeral in Dec., '97; consequently announced willingness to be open God's active involvement in our lives. That was like rocket fuel. Once aligned with the Holy Spirit, everything began to fall into place including major career changes and best most important of all, the long-anticipated arrival of Elizabeth in 2002 after 15 years of marriage! What a joy! (Was gifted an original first edition printing of A Course in Miracles in '98 which I began studying at the same time I became a catechumin, and both led to finding my way home to the Orthodox Church in '99. And its been rich and growing ever since!) Five years ago we got a new priest who I don't resonate with as much and I wound up, still seeking, discovering what I believe to be the most important spiritual event, and have been studying and connecting with Abraham Hicks, since 2015. I'm really lit about that; there is zero conflict with the teachings of Christ, and in fact great further insights into many of Christ's teachings.

Had a great 12-year run of a fun arty graphic design business that employed up to 25 during our busy season, 8 regularly year-round, making t-shirts for dance studios all over the country and some overseas. Didn't survive the contraction of our market with the economic collapse of 2008, had to lay off our beloved staff and sold the business to a large competitor in 2011-2012. Went back to school for ghostwriting, started a new business devoted to writing.

My fondest school memories had to do with some of our teachers . . . Joe Vitrano's Bob Dilan impersonations in Latin class are highly memorable . . . Mr. Streff's wonderfully challenging assignments . . . being part of the cast and crew of Bye Bye Birdie and R.U.R. Sledding parties and the slow dance parties at Heidi's house . . . the party at Jeff Nealy's "haunted" house on the county institution grounds . . . 8-track tapes playing Joe Walsh "Life's Been Good So Far" in my 1972 Satellite Sebring Plus . . . hanging out at Mayfair Mall before the second remodeling, when there were goldfish in the streams and an ice skating rink.