: About Me

I'm a British-born Canadian, now living in London, England.

My passion is ...

writing, reading, playing the ukulele

I know too much about ...

where my food comes from

My parents always told me ...

if you know how to make pastry, you can conquer the world

My childhood ambition ...

to grow up

My favorite memory ...

eating raclette in a candlelit restaurant in the Swiss mountains after a long, cold hike in the dark

Why I write ...

because my ukulele is broken

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

People you'd trust your life to by Bronwen Wallace

My first job ...

in a hairdressing salon

My best moment ...

giving birth

My inspiration ...

my three children

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Snowed in

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"What's the point of snow, mom?" my son asked me one day, years ago, at the end of a particularly brutal Montreal winter. He was tired of being stuffed into a snowsuit each morning before being taken out to tackle snowbanks and slushy puddles. At the time, I probably responded with a short lecture about the plants needing a nice, soft blanket to cover them. I'm writing this, however, in London, at the end of the first week of February, 2009 the week that will be remembered for the worst snowstorm to hit the UK in almost 20 years. Today, several more plausible answers, applicable within the...

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