Hi!

My name is Sam.  I am a writer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.*  I’ve enjoyed reading and writing from a young age.  I started reading by age four and by grade one had started writing short stories (mostly plagiarized from some of my favourite books, I was later embarrassed to discover).  Somewhere along the way, I’ve decided that the kid in all of us is smarter and wiser in many ways than our adult self.  As kids we knew what we enjoyed and we just did it.  As adults, we allow too much traffic into our decisions.  We do what we think we should.  And end up unhappy and unfulfilled.  So I am going back to writing.  My five year old self knew a thing or two about me.  Whether my writing gains a following or not, I will be able to say I did it.

For the record, my description on Twitter is pretty accurate.  If I had a dollar for each time my husband said to “stop telling stories” …

*For those that are interested in my writing credentials, I have been published in both newspaper and magazine

photo: around age five.

photo: CHEERS!    At the bar in Boston.