About

I grew up loving to read books!

By Grade 6 my teacher kindly wrote in my yearbook

that I keep on reading!

And so did, doing an honours BA in English Lit on the

West Coast and taking classes in poetry, creative writing,

old and new literature...

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By merry happenstance that I was introduced

to the Orthodox church back in Lent 2002.

I simply did not have a ride to my church 

and was offered a ride to a local lower mainland

British Columbia church that was Orthodox.

The humour in this how did you become Orthodox? 

Oh, I did not have a ride to my own church... 

escaped me for sometime...

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Just over a year later I chose to stay in this church

for the rest of my life.

A pretty heady decision and one that has 

shaped everything that has come since.

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And so I became an Orthodox Christian

who is always dreaming of Holy Week and Pascha.

I lived in Ottawa, Ontario for 7 years before I married

Mr. Husband and my spiritual father there

always said that if you were going to live one week,

Holy Week and Pascha (Easter) is the week.

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So...I love to read,

write (poetry, nonfiction, blog posts),

bake bread, cook meals for dinner parties.
knit, sew and dream up things to make,
esp. for all the children in my life.

I love my cat Cleo.

I love my Mr. Husband more.

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I took up knitting in February of 2013

an am loving it.

You can find me on Revelry here.

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I took up quilting and sewing in the early Spring of 2015.
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I continued my education

after leaving the Vancouver area,

in London Ontario and

got a Masters in Library and Information Science

before moving to Ottawa,

where I lived and worked for 7 years

until I changed my life to marry

my beloved Mr. Husband

who, like me, grew up in a Dutch Christian household,

and who also loves to read, loves kids,

monasteries and the Orthodox church.

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I am a Canadian and an American 

who lived in the States for the first 20 years,

then about 15 mainly in Canada

and now back in the States for the foreseeable future,

which is never what one thinks it will be 

before the future becomes the present. 

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This blog began in 2005 when I was new to Ottawa.

I've done a lot of growing, stretching and changing

in the years and love the friends I have

found through the blog world!

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I live with Mr. Husband in a bedsitter community of NYC in NJ.

You can contact me here.