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Biography
I love to travel and spent four years cruising aboard our 30' sailboat and visiting Alaska, B.C.'s north coast, Mexico, Central America and the eastern seaboard of the U.S. That experience made us decide to head out again and, after five years spent planning and building, our family of three; my husband Evan (who illustrates many of my travel stories with his gorgeous photos), our 9 year old daughter Maia (who reluctantly poses for us) and Charlie the cat are living aboard our 40' catamaran and exploring tropical destinations.
I always planned to be a writer, but somewhere along the line I got the idea that I could never pay off a student loan on a writer's income. So I trained as a Recreation Therapist and spent several years on a community mental health team. Then one day I sent a story off to a magazine and got a cheque by return mail.
Since then I've learned to almost stand up on a surf board, mastered laying up fibreglass, canoed down a northern fur trade river and spent time on a police boat looking for yacht thieves - all for the sake of a good story.
If you're curious about our sailing trip stop by Ceilydh Sets Sail--my personal blog about blue water sailing.
Client
List
Magazines
- Men’s Journal
- Islands
- Reader’s Digest
- Air Canada's enRoute
- Cruising World
- Yachting Times
- SAIL
- Sailing
- Pacific Yachting
- Scuba Diving
- Canadian Living
- Canadian Retailer
- Western Living
- West
- Northwest Palate
- Northwest Travel
- Edible Vancouver
- Pregnancy
- Mothering Magazine
- Best Health
- BC Parent
- Private Clubs
- Chesapeake Bay Magazine
- Chesapeake Family
- North of Ordinary
- Boatworks
- Boat Journal
- Shared Vision
Books
- Vancouver Island Book of Everything (co-author)
- Travelers' Tales - Her Fork in the Road
- Travelers' Tales - Wild with Child
Newspapers
- The Guardian
- The Washington Post
- The Georgia Straight
- Travel + Leisure.com
- BC Living.ca
- Forbestraveler.com
- Granvilleonline.ca
- More.ca
- Mothering.com
- Reader's Digest.ca
