A former community newspaper reporter, editor and Agriculture Canada communications officer, Heather Leask Armstrong has been writing and providing a public relations and desktop publishing service from an acreage near Brunkild, Manitoba for over 10 years. She has had articles and columns published in The Farmers Independent Weekly, The Western Producer, The Carman Valley Leader, Cottage Magazine, and Canadian Homestead. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in The Collective Consciousness Journal. She currently has the enviable job of being surrounded by books as the librarian at her former high school. She recently moved to Sanford, Manitoba with a screened in little room on the back deck with a view of the river – a perfect spot for reading and writing.