Florida Town

I first started writing when I was five years old. I learned to read when I was four and when I was five, mom and dad gave me a toy typewriter for Christmas. That was the start of my writing career. I wrote for school newspapers when I got older, and after graduation, I worked as a newspaper reporter. I was the first female sports reporter at the Vancouver Sun (this was back in the 1940s) and that was an adventure in itself. From there I moved through various departments of the Sun, and other daily newspapers in Vancouver.

On The Rim is pure fiction - but it is, unfortunately, based on fact. I saw many of my friends, neighbors and relatives, involved in divorces, in separations, and in various romantic entanglements. I ride a bicycle - and there is something almost hypnotic in the action of pedaling, and something wonderfully liberating in the actual ride. So your mind ranges around. It was during one of my rides that I started imagining 'what if?" What if a woman absolutely didn't see a divorce coming - and that actually happened to someone very near to me.
Then I began to imagine my protagonist - what would Ellen be like? What was her backstory? How did she react to this, and other situations? From there, it was like entering her world and sharing her experiences.