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| Mardi Gras 2001, photo courtesy KJS. |
Belinda Yvonne Hughes is a substitute teacher and certified
yoga instructor who lives with her fur children, Stevie, Sweetie and Teresa, in Southwest Louisiana.

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| Teaching yoga inservice at CARC, 2006 |
Belinda occasionally sings 60s, 70s, 80s and Blues rewrites in church (Lake Charles Community Church of the Brethren,
aka L3CB), serves on the Board of Commissions, edits the church newsletter, and spearheads the Nursing Home Outreach Ministry.

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| Helping out during flooded nursing home evacuation, 2006. |
Her work has been published in the (McNeese State University) Contraband, the (Lake
Charles) American Press, (Lake Charles Community Church of the Brethren) Newsletter,
Long Story Short (http://www.longstoryshort.us/), and Amaze: The Cinquain Journal (http://www.amaze-cinquain.com/), among others.

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| Me with E. Ethelbert Miller, editor of Poet Lore, during Poetry Month, April 2006. |
Belinda's Writing Blog
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