: About Me

Hi. I am a retired Office Supervisor with 26 years of experience in the insurance field. In the back of my head I've always had this fantasy to write-not the great Canadian novel, but short stories, articles. My husband is a retired university English prof and is very encouraging but as the old saying goes, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."

Since finding Helium, my interest is in full blown mode again. Although I've only written 2 articles so far, they have given me the needed push to continue.

My other passion is knitting. I find knitting to be very therapeutic and since I have MS, I have quite a few down days. Knitting helps me through them.

I love animals and our home is graced with 2 cats (both housecats) and a Coton de Tulear. My mom always said she was suspicious of people who didn't like animals and I agree totally with her.

I live in Nova Scotia and we are just experiencing our first snowfall of 2007 (Nov. 11). We love the province and have no desire to live anywhere else.

Hope this gives you a bit of an insight into my world.

My passion is ...

knitting

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything I wanted.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a teacher

My favorite memory ...

visiting the Columbia Icefields and standing on 1100 feet of solid ice

Why I write ...

I write because I feel I can express myself on paper better than I can orally.

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

Pushing Daisies, Into the Wild

My first job ...

sales clerk at a local Metropolitan store

My best moment ...

receiving MVP when I played jr high school basketball

My inspiration ...

remembering we own nothing. All things come from God.

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