TBT: Signing some copies of Wild Fell at Chapters, in St. Boniface, Manitoba, December, 2013.
The previous evening, we'd had a launch an a reading at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg. That afternoon, I'd done a Q&A at a beautiful Native centre. It was an absolutely wonderful couple of days full of old friends, and new friends of the work. One of the hosts of the Q&A made a comment about how cold it must be for me, "being from Toronto."
I told him I'd spent four years at boarding school in Manitoba in the 1970s, when the average daily temperature was -40. I told him I found the temperature that day brisk and pleasant, which, I think, impressed him.