Professional

I'm Known For...

My raucous laugh. I have been recognized beyond closed doors, I have interrupted live theatre, and busy halls have quieted in wonder.

I Truly Respect

Creativity, discipline, focus, drive, integrity, humour, wit, intelligence, compassion, oh dear it looks like I'm headed toward candle-lit dinners and long walks on the beach.

How I Pay For This Wardrobe

By searching the couches for change and frequenting thrift shops, garage sales, and Naked Lady parties.

Blocks I've Been Around

Granite, Ogden Point Breakwater, low tide. Quartz monzonite, Joshua Tree. Jomfru Ane Gade, the longest block of continuous bars in Europe, Aalborg, Denmark.

Where I'd Like To Be 10 Years From Now

Leisurely descending Aconcagua as the last leg of my victorious and injury-free Seven Summits quest.

Why True/Slant

Because False/Flat just wasn't cutting it.

Personal

What I'm Currently Addicted To...

harkavagrant.com, the British comedy quiz show QI, and growing vegetables

This Is Annoying Me...

My favourite bicycle is too small for me, I can't actually make everything better, and this dictionary won't recognize Canadian English.

This Is Bringing Me Joy...

Gmail videochat and--unrelated--newly acquired sheet music to old torch songs.

I'm Running From...

my endless loop of distractions.

This Is Helping Me Create...

Agatha Christie's remark that "The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."

This Is Making Me Think - Hard...

Design constraints, fractal themes, big game, innovative strategies.

This Makes My Teeth Itch

Wastrels.

Favorite Voices

Sarah Vaughan, Stan Rogers, and all the encouraging ones.

My Most Awkward Moment

The spring that I was 12, my youth group leader led a discussion about Easter. He asked us what the holiday's greatest significance was; we offered that Jesus died for our sins, that he turned the other cheek, that he was nailed to the cross, that we get a four-day weekend--all of it wrong. We were stumped. So he said, "I'll give you a clue. It was the Res..." I got it first, and blurted "Urrection!" Church sure was fun.

My Secret Ambition

To build the off-the-grid house of my dreams with my own two hands using funds from my lucrative career as a mezzo-soprano coloratura.