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edition:Paperback
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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Oct 2014
ISBN:9781927426517
publisher: Signature Editions

I Wasn't Always Like This

by Shelley A Leedahl

tagged: personal memoirs, women
Description

Some people claim they would like to walk away from their lives. Shelley A. Leedahl had the nerve to do it. Was it an act of selfishness, or self-preservation? Provocative, candid, and engaging, these intimate essays explore the implicit complexities and contradictions when personal and professional lives both complement and clash. How can she be a good mother when her literary calling requires her to be away — sometimes countries away — from her school-aged children? How does she reconcile the fact she is often more comfortable with strangers in foreign countries than with her own kith and kin? Yet personal experiences — including travels near and far, parental dilemmas, relationship breakdowns, new love, emotional chaos, and the care taken in creating gardens – also inspire the work.

About the Author

Shelley A Leedahl

Shelley A. Leedahl's work has appeared in anthologies, magazines, journals and newspapers. She is the author of Riding the Planet Earth, Sky Kickers and A Few Words for January. Shelley lives in Saskatoon, SK.

Contributor Notes

Multi-genre writer Shelley A. Leedahl assuredly shifts her creative focus between critically acclaimed books of poetry, short fiction, novels, and children’s literature. With I Wasn’t Always Like This, the seasoned writer and popular presenter adds creative non-fiction to her literary repertoire. Her numerous titles include Wretched Beast; Listen, Honey; Orchestra of the Lost Steps; The Bone Talker (with illustrator Bill Slavin);The House of the Easily Amused; and A Few Words For January. Leedahl’s work has appeared in anthologies ranging fromThe Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2013 to Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories;Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Nonfiction; Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada; and Outside of Ordinary: Women’s Travel Stories. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Leedahl has also lived in Calgary, Medicine Hat, Sechelt, and Edmonton. She now makes her home in Ladysmith, BC. In addition to literary writing, she works as a freelance writer, editor, and writing instructor.

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