In her house are boxes of thirty-five year's worth of journals that she began to keep when their youngest child was five. "Had my forbearers kept journals that I could look at years later I would have loved them for it. I hope our children will love me for it too when they are trying to find room for them someday." Her essays, book reviews, short stories, and travel articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Hamilton Spectator, Room magazine, and women's magazines in England. Her name is engraved on The Lady Violet Astor Rosebowl, which lives in the library in Chawton House, Jane Austen's home. It was awarded to her for a Globe and Mail essay by The Society of Women Writers and Journalists in England. She has written two previous books, one about Lady Alice Seeley Harris (1870-1970), whose photography of abuses in the rubber trade helped to remove King Leopold's grasp on Congo. Her other book was the journal she started on her seventieth birthday and kept every day for one year. It was her experiment in making every moment count: The More The Merrier ~ Celebrating Seventy from Archway Publishing. She thanks her family for being wonderful, her friends because they are too, as are the good people from all over the world who have woven the richest of tapestries into the lives of her family. Threads of gold indeed. One of her favourite sign-offs is that which Emily Carr wrote at the end of her letters to her great friend Ira Dilworth, "Oodles of love," which Emily eventually shortened to "Oodles." To all of you, she sends "oodles."