So Give Thanks

Some days I feel like I’m at the beginning, and it’s terribly frightening. Today is one of those days. I’ve been thinking lately about my writing and the journey it has involved. I’ve been faithful to my writing ever since 2003, when my first essay was published. I was living in Ottawa, Ontario, at the time, and I had to sandwich my writing in and around my day job. Fluent in English and French, staying employed in Ottawa — the nation’s capital — was easy for me. When I moved to Sherbrooke, Q...