: About Me

I write to save my soul. I am a director of internal communications at a company I love called Sodexo (food services & facilities managment). I write everyday during this day job and sometimes at night and sometimes in the morning. All this creativity happens in the Town of Burlington, just outside Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

While I spent about a year and a half in Toronto doing contracts in communications before making the leap to suburburbia, the main part of my career so far was six years of progressive internal communications work in the Federal Government of Canada in Ottawa. During this time, I also exercised a number of creative outlets outside of work:

I started a women's writing collective for drama called Retro-Act and wrote a play.

I wrote and independently published a novel for young girls age 8-10 called Sing, Girls, Sing! through Lulu.com.

I sang professionally in an acappella quartet, inspiration for my novel.

I joined a Rogers tv show called The Ticket as a Music Reporter where I orchestrated live-to-tape interviews with the likes of Wide Mouth Mason, Sum41 and Chantal Kreviazuk.

I left government work for 6 months to complete a Journalism-Print program and to write for The Ottawa Sun, a daily newspaper. There, I published more than 100 news and feature articles.

I am also a certified teacher (French & English) with experience as it was my first job after I left my studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. This experience includes elementary, high school and college course work.

My passion is ...

writing.

I know too much about ...

emotions.

My parents always told me ...

Keep doin' yer books! (That means keep doing your homework and you'll get somewhere.)

My childhood ambition ...

was to write books and be a musician.

My favorite memory ...

is of my little sister looking up to me.

Why I write ...

because otherwise I'll explode.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Richard North Patterson, Jane Austen, iPod on shuffle

My first job ...

was as the oldest of five kids.

My best moment ...

is finding me almost daily now.

My inspiration ...

is in so many places.

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Here are 10 uses for baking soda: 1. Clean the bathtub. Whether your bathtub is cleaned weekly or monthly, baking soda is a practical and effective agent for giving it an honest scrub without leaving behind unwanted chemical or fragrant substances or residue. First sprinkle baking soda all over your bathtub, wet a cloth and wring out the excess water and then scrub the dry baking soda with your damp cloth using friction to remove the grit until your tub sparkles. 2. Clean hard-to-clean pots, pans and casserole dishes. Using the same approach of dry baking soda and a damp, not wet, cloth, u...

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