: About Me

I can't remember a time when I didn't read, and by extension, write. I grew up on Tolkien and Carolyn Keene, the Grimms, Anne Frank and 'Practical Cats', and daydreams when I ran out of reading material. Now I'm a twenty-something Canadian boreal archaeologist/historian (depending upon the season) with feet that itch for travel and a tendancy to play Boggle with anyone willing. I prefer white wine to red, cheese to ice cream, and adore puppies that will one day grow into large dogs.

My short speculative fiction has appeared in Neo-Opsis Magazine, NFG, Beyond Centauri, and Aoife's Kiss, as well as the 'Darkness Rising 2005' anthology and 'Tesseracts Ten', which was nominated for an Aurora Award. I also discovered the rare 'Screaming Mi-mis' which will be fully described in the forthcoming (and very lovely) 'A Field Guide to Surreal Botany' from Two Cranes Press.

My passion is ...

living, learning, swimming, and discovering what's around the next corner!

I know too much about ...

the details, and too little about the big picture.

My favorite memory ...

was the day that I sold my first short story.

My first job ...

was at a movie theatre, selling popcorn.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My first ice climb

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SATURDAY: Climbing is pretty basic: you go up. As high as your anchors, or higher if you lead climb, but every climber knows that the goal is somewhere above your head. I started climbing rock two years ago when I met my soon-to-be boyfriend, and in an effort to impress him I overcame my fear of heights and hit the indoor gym - although it didn't hurt that I had a great tush. Two years later and I'm hooked - on the boy and the climb. I'm following my man through shin-deep snow up the river without a paddle - not that we need one since the ice beneath us is several feet thick. It's March in...

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