Somehow you've arrived here. Welcome. Perhaps you already know a thing or ten about me, but here are a few more details. I am a journalist, painter, gardener, naturalist and mom. I grew up in Toronto, studied biology at the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo and journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa. From there, I went to CBC Radio in Halifax, and then into magazine publishing – where the art, features, typography, shelf life, and all-night-production madness won my heart. It was the 1980s.

I was one of the founding editors of Cottage Life, was senior and then managing editor of Today's Parent, and freelanced for a pile of other publications, including Western Living, where I wrote the restaurant column for the Edmonton edition. People who know me – especially my two kids – know just how nuts that was.

In 2004, I left publishing for the environmental non-profit Evergreen, and was honoured to manage the national school-ground-greening program and a fine crew of landscape architects across the country. Farm life in the Northumberland Hills was next, and for five years I was delighted to work as both a writer and editor for Watershed magazine. Now Cobourg is home, the view of the lake is mesmerizing and, when not gazing to the blue horizon, I’m enjoying getting to know the community and helping out with the Ecology Garden, the Oriana Singers, Blue Dot Northumberland and SONG, a free music program for kids. There are riches everywhere.