I grew up in Thunder Bay, a small Canadian city on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was a wee bit chilly.
Somehow I made it through high school, college, and a Master’s degree without realizing how much I loved writing. It wasn’t until I had my first child and wrote a picture book for him that it occurred to me I might want to be an author.
I’m currently an elementary/middle school art teacher, but I’ve also worked as a:
- tree planter
- art therapist
- museum outreach coordinator
- lifeguard
- homeless shelter art and music group leader
- flower arranger in a bouquet factory
- wilderness program canoe trip guide, and
- (absolutely terrible) waitress
The same things make me happy now as when I was a tot:
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- dancing,
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- painting,
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- music,
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- digging in the dirt
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- picnics,
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- reading, and writing!
- Writing snacks – Dark chocolate and dark roast coffee, salt and vinegar chips, raspberries, almond cakes and stroopwaffels
- Colors – Blue (favorite jeans, ocean, old bottles, swimming pools, sky) and red-orange (rust, fall leaves, poppies).
- Favorite Places – The beach; the west side of Vancouver Island; country roads around Nashville (dry-stacked rock walls and overhanging trees); the North Shore of Lake Superior; international markets, and outdoor cafés on the water
- Flowers – Anemones, poppies and water lilies
- Season – Fall
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