cozybookbasics
cozybookbasics
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| Member | Feb 16, 2012 (14 years) |
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Bio
Born on a farm on the northern fringe of Toronto, I got a degree in English Language & Literature and married my Varsity heart throb. Early employment was at the Toronto Telegram, Maclean-Hunter and freelancing for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Montreal Star and Montreal Gazette. My most fun jobs were as professional public relations secretary first of the Montreal YMCA and then of the Toronto YMCA, and as a program organizer of CBC-TV's first live nationally televised conference The Real World of Woman (1961). Following a move to Canada's capital region, I became editor/co-owner of the weekly newspaper in my home town of Aylmer (now a sector of Gatineau), QC and had the busiest, best career of a lifetime. Upon discovering the keepsake box full of love letters, journals and photos my parents left, I published A Book of Kells: Growing Up in an Ego Void. It records my family's lives and my uneasy coming of age as a minister's daughter. Then I wrote Kathleen's Cariole Ride recounting my parents' transatlantic courtship and adventures living on a Cree reserve in the north. At the 2012 Centennial Conference honoring the literary critic, Northrop Frye, I learned that my notes of his lectures are posted on the fryeblog, available for public download.
My husband and I have been married for 60 years now and have really enjoyed all we've done together: running a weekly newspaper, canoeing, skiing and traveling. He made all our furniture as well as having a life-time career as a patent examiner for the Canadian government. We have three children and five grandchildren.
All of my writing is on the theme of love in its many manifestations.
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