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This project is so close to my heart. In fact, Lori Leak is my heart. She is me.

The story we tell ourselves about anything is the reality we manifest in our lives. The effect of that story can be seen in our lives in the reality we create for ourselves. With Lori Leak, I am able to tell a story from the heart about a father-daughter bond, a family, and exploring the world.

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Lori wonders why her father didn’t make it home for story time the night before but soon the curious, intelligent daughter of Lawrence and Adelle Leak learns that it was because he was preparing them for a great adventure. Lori and her parents are travelling across an ocean to Paris, France!

This funny, heartwarming story of an African-American girl and her parents exploring the beautiful and charming sights of Paris will make you laugh and feel good. Written from the heart by an intercultural consultant and author Barrett Clemmensen Powell and richly illustrated by award-winning animator Kristen Palana, it is a children’s book keepsake.

Barrett says that travelling for visiting, or living in other cultures is central to my heart. You learn so much about yourself and your origins when you spend time with other other people in their country and culture. Building bridges across cultures and between people is my mission, and travelling empowers me to accomplish my goal.

Books are treasures and I am in deep gratitude that in my lifetime I have been blessed with the talent and afforded the opportunity to create a character who looks like me and a story/book that shows African-American family life. I am especially thankful to my talented and patient illustrator, (and both kindred native New Englander and expatriate) Kristen Palana. gave my story rich and vibrant colours — like my vision.

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Barrett Clemmensen Powell is a New England native who later became a California girl, in sunny La Jolla, CA. She has travelled and lived in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. Her future travel plans include Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Barrett combined her former career as a former TV/radio journalist and her ordination as a minister to become a lifestyle entrepreneur focused on human lifespan, culture and spirituality. Barrett has an Associate of Arts in French from Grossmont College, a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication from Emerson College, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Cultural Encounters, and a Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary. She is working towards a Ph.D. in Psychology. Barrett enjoys learning languages (including French-Danish and Hebrew). She is an American expatriate living in Copenhagen Denmark.

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Lori Leak Travels to Paris (Kindle version) – bit.ly/LLPAz

Lori Leak Travels to Paris (paperback) – bit.ly/LoriLeak

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Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her guest Annette LeBox and the discovery on sex trafficking. Originally Aired: 07-04-2013

Annette LeBox was born in England in 1943 during the Second World War. Her father, a Canadian soldier, was killed on D-Day at Juno Beach. After the war, her mother, a British war bride, brought one-year-old Annette to Canada by ship, landing at Halifax’s Pier 41.

Annette was raised in Ontario, but during her twenties lived in Britain, Ireland and Spain before moving to her present home in British Columbia. Through the sixties, she worked as a nurse’s aide, store clerk, bartender and bunny at a copycat Playboy Club, before becoming an elementary school teacher. In 1994, she took a position as a Faculty Associate at Simon Fraser University, where she began Narrative Research under the mentorship of Dr. Ted Aoki. It was through this work that she developed an interest in writing. Soon after earning a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, she published her first picture book, Miss Rafferty’s Rainbow Socks.

Many of Annette’s books are inspired by nature she has to date written six books, and we will discuss them today, but what intrigues me is what took her across the seas to China to discover more about cranes, but led her into another direction all together, today we are going to talk about her love of cranes, her many books on crane adventures but also how a book of a different topic altogether came about from that trip to China.

After retiring from teaching, she decided to go to China to do some research on Cranes but found a world that would lead her to write a magical realism book that has shown a shameful light on modern day slavery.

In 1996, HarperCollins published Annette’s first picture book, Miss Rafferty’s Rainbow Socks. Since then, Annette has had four picture books and two YA novels published.

A new children’s book “Peace is an Offering,” is available now and I will be interviewing Annette on this book and others in July.

Many of Annette’s books are inspired by nature. She was a founding member of a local environmental group, the Pitt Polder Preservation Society, a major stakeholder in the conservation of two regional parks, Blaney Bog in Maple Ridge and Codd Wetland in Pitt Meadows. These ecosystems harbour both Greater Sandhill cranes and wild salmon.

Annette divides her time between her home in Maple Ridge and her remote cabin in the Cariboo region of central British Columbia, where she enjoys cross-country running and skiing, skating, hauling brush, and reading by the fire while listening to the howling of the wolves.

Annette is married to Michael Sather, an avid birdwatcher and fellow ‘craniac.’

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