let's introduce ourselves, shall we?

the time has come to say hello!

Remember in the first day of class/camp/workshop when you’d have to go around the circle and say your name and favourite food and it was like:

Scott, pizza

Jen, pizza

Krista, pizza

Jeff, pizza

Leah, lamb vindaloo on basmati rice with apricots and raisins

… and everyone would laugh and your face would burn and you’d look down at your knees while thinking, “Well, the teacher did ask, so what else was I meant to say?”

Maybe that was just me.

I was never much good at going with the flow or flowing with the go. On the up side I was never afraid of chilies or lamb. By the age of five or six I was well-used to being cruelly ridiculed by pizza lovers. Not that I don’t love pizza.

I’m Leah. A novelist, memoirist, columnist, journalist, screenwriter, podcaster and creator of this newsletter.

I ask a lot of nosey questions, here is my first: What brought you here?

Talk to me. Really. I mean it.