P.A. Moed (if you have not yet made your way over to her blog and read her wonderful writing, you are missing out–go on over there right now!), has challenged me to reveal 10 interesting facts about myself.
So here they are (I’m not sure if all of these would be considered interesting. Maybe weird. I don’t have many secrets, so I’m digging deep here, folks!):
1. I like to talk to trees.
2. I was a thumbsucker until well into my teens.
3. I grew up in a sea of women. My father had four sisters. My mother had six sisters. I have three sisters. Most of my many cousins are girls.
4. Though I have lived in the US for 27 years, I still have not applied for citizenship.
5. I have been to nearly 40 National Parks in the United States and Canada.
6. My husband and I drove 19,000 miles around the country and of that 19,000 miles, I was behind the wheel for 100 miles. I hate to drive.
7. I nearly choked to death when I was five. I slipped while climbing an apple tree in winter and my neck got caught in the V of two branches. My sisters were with me and didn’t know what to do other than yell. My mum saw me from the window where she was washing dishes and ran out in her bare feet (in winter, in Montreal) to save me. I wasn’t allowed to climb trees after that.
8. My mother was overprotective.
9. I didn’t learn how to ride a bike until I was ten and taught myself in the back yard (see above).
10. I wasn’t allowed to spin in circles and get dizzy because my mother feared I would have a seizure like I had when I was a baby (see #8).
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And now, it’s my turn to pass the baton to:
myfanwy collins 