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About Colleen
 I
am a woman of a "certain age". That is to say, I was born in 1960.
I
have been a voracious reader all my life but somehow it never occurred
to me to make the correlation that someone could actually become a
writer... Countless Trixie Belden, Hardy Boy and Nancy Drew sets went by and then
I read Diary of Anne Frank. I immediately started my own Dear Diary.
In
the last decade that has morphed into a three-page-a-day habit. A habit
almost as necessary as coffee. Not quite - but close. Eighteen years in British Columbia's forest industry prepared me for
this new world of working with editors. Editorial rejection is a walk in
the park compared to being the only female log broker in the hurly-burly
resource-based world. But...I'm getting ahead of myself.
To back up - my husband and I retired
in 1996. I was 36 and he was 39. We planned, invested and then
downsized, deciding that making more time was more important than making
more money. Those first years we did lots of traveling, and as always, I was keeping
a journal. So really, it was inevitable. Plus, as it turns out, I
actually quite love to work - especially at something that I really
love.
Imagine that? I
am a writer.
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