By trade, I’m a high school English teacher and a published author. But more importantly, my wife and I own and operate Country Wickhouse Candles, a soy candle company, for which I am mostly the marketing and PR contact. I have four sons, two dogs, and multiple personalities, but I try to smile every single day. Our candle company slogan is unique: “Country simple, simply country.” We live and breathe this motto and believe in preserving our earth, actively conserving our environment, and using only natural ingredients in our candle making processes. After all, we love the open countryside in which we live, and we’ll do anything to keep our home and our world clean and safe.
I was born in Ogdensburg, New York, and grew up on the shores of the St. Lawrence River. I received a Bachelor’s Degree in writing from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, and a Master’s Degree in secondary education from the State University of New York at Potsdam College. I live in a little rural settlement called North Bangor with my wife and children, way up in the north of the state where we happily make all-natural soy candles and operate our Internet candle company.
Check out our little candle business at Country Wickhouse Candles!
This is awesome!!!! This is gonna be so great when it catches the ears and noses of everyone worldwide. Every great thing started with an idea, and this one helps make sure future generations have a world clean enough to live in.
Nicely done, Doe husband and wife!!
Oh, and Brian, I am more than happy to share that PR position with you!!
I wanted to comment professionally on the importance of therapeutic assistance with some of my clients. There are so many types of therapy – RBT, Cognitive, Management of anger, phobias, decision making- thankfully there is a long list of therapeutic interventions. Most times, in my experience, when a client is divulging or working through a difficult issue, assistance is needed to create an environment where a sense of calm and security is present. I have and will continue to use the sense of smell through candles. Various scents send us back or forward to a time that relieves pressure, anger, grudges, tears…Our sense of smell allows us to breath in a scent that adds clarity, security, trust. Candles have been a large part of my therapeutic aides and will continue to be. People need people, plain and simple. And if a scent of a candle gives someone the ability to get through a moment time, then a process has started and so has the healing.
Teri L. O’Meara
BSW, CASAC/ICADC