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| Mardi Gras 2001, photo courtesy KJS. |
Belinda featured in March 2008 Writers' Showcase
Miracle story collection, LIVING PROOF, excerpted in October 2007 Long Story Short
Belinda Yvonne Hughes is an autism paraprofessional, photographer, author and certified
yoga instructor who lives with her four-legged children, Stevie, Sweetie, Teresa, Myron and Dawna in Southwest Louisiana.
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| Teaching yoga inservice at CARC, 2006 |
Belinda has sung 60s, 70s, 80s and Blues rewrites in church (Lake Charles Community Church of the Brethren, aka L3CB),
served on the Board of Commissions, edited the church newsletter, and spearheaded the Nursing Home Outreach Ministry. She
has also volunteered at the AIDS Council Food Pantry and Calcasieu Women's Shelter.
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| Helping out during flooded nursing home evacuation, 2006. |
Her work has been read on-air at KPLC-TV(NBC),
and 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. She has been featured on KPLC-TV(NBC) and KLCL-AM.
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| Me with E. Ethelbert Miller, editor of Poet Lore, during Poetry Month, April 2006. |
Belinda is currently a member of Lake Area Photographers (http://www.lakeareaphotographers.com), Calcasieu Federation of Teachers,
and American Federation of Teachers.
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