It’s been over ten years since I last wrote on this site. That doesn’t mean that nothing has been going on in my life. Writing is always in the back of my mind but the poor thing took a back seat while we all got ourselves sorted out. I went back to teaching elementary school full time and did a Master’s degree. The kids struggled through school and then university (Alex is still there, see below).
I wish I could say that we all lived happily after but we haven’t quite reached that stage in our lives yet. My daughter who is now 28 has a beautiful son, Jackson, who will be two in December. They both live with me which has its joys and the occasional bad day. I retired in 2020 right at the beginning of the Covid lockdown. I still do substitute teaching, but on the days that I’m not, you can find me agonizing over revising a query letter or looking for books like mine. My wonderful son Alex is still in university on year six of his four-year degree. He should be okay as he is doing applied computer science. I’m sure once he gets out into the real world, someone will need a coder somewhere.
I’ve finished writing a book called In the Dead of Winter. It’s about a woman who is fed up with her life in Montreal and needs to escape. She signs on to be a teacher in an Inuit village in Northern Quebec. I’ll post the first Chapter so you can read it and let me know what you think.
That’s it for now. I hope you are all happy and well.
Until next time…
Margaret Hastings-James 