About

Allow me to introduce myself…

I was born and grew up in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and have lived in a variety of places including Tokyo, Japan and Honolulu, Hawaii, where I have called home for the better part of the last 15 years.

I am a financial analyst/accountant (CMA) by training and am a little too analytical as a result of it if you ask my husband!

My passions are varied and I like to think of myself as a jack of all trades…

• I’ve taken some great photographs with my relatively new DSLR but am ever thankful for digital memory so that I can delete the shots that were brilliant in concept but not so fabulous in actuality.
• Cooking good food is also something that I enjoy tremendously and while I love cookbooks (and have far too many), I most often use them for inspiration rather than following them to the letter.  The results are tasty more often than not and I enjoy everything from the planning and preparation right through to the dishes.
• Crochet, knitting and sewing are other enjoyable pastimes and while I can usually keep my credit card in my pocket at the mall, a craft store is an entirely different matter.
• Even since I was a little girl I have always traveled.  My parents loved to get away but hated hotels and airplanes, so my sister and I would be wedged between my parents in a pick-up with a camper on the back and off we’d go to visit new places. I got to see most of the western United States and Canada that way and I can still recall my mother reading us the history and interesting facts about the various places that we visited even when we really didn’t care, but then she had a captive audience!  I believe that is where my passion for seeing new places and learning about them was born.

Send a challenge of any sort my way and I will likely take it up with results as varied as my interests…

To life,