About

First and foremost: I am a writer. Sometimes I pretend to be something else — but writing always finds me again. I used to write every day. Here is the old blog now in petrified pixels.

I am easily wooed by words, and have been known to swoon over beautifully crafted paragraphs and clever phrases.

The web has inspired me since I first beheld its magnificence in 1995. It changed my life and became my career. It turned me into a geek (and I’m fine with that). I like playing with code and widgets and style sheets. So nah.

For over 14 years, I’ve maintained a writers’ resource website: [places for writers]. If you’re a writer you should visit.

I create stories about people I’ve met. And I write parts of people into poems. There is probably something about you here somewhere.

My favourite colour is the inky blue of twilight just before the sky sinks into black.

I like music (particularly fond of Elbow, Doves, The Editors, Boxer Rebellion) and I like to read. I love spinning, hiking, and walking for hours. Public transit makes me anxious. So do dawdling walkers and uneven sidewalk surfaces.

I think humans and animals are meant to share the earth. So I don’t eat either of them.

Other things that bring me joy: Liam and Noel (the cats), red wine, beers with friends, cooking, British reality TV/dramas, loud concerts, the light and darkness of cities, and going back home to rural tranquility. And especially that amazing guy from high school who married me.