Then...
- 8 years old
- Bath, England
Now...
- 39 years old
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Freelance Arts writer for the Salt Lake Tribune and Art Lab Assistant & Freelance Marketing Assistant for The Leonardo Museum
My Story...
I have a BA in Theatre and Film Studies from Bristol University in England, I am also a trained journalist. I worked for a morning daily newspaper in Bath for two years, then moved to Salt Lake, acted professionally for a few years, and joined the team at IN This Week, an entertainment niche product of the Salt Lake Tribune, as their arts and theatre writer. Now I work as a freelance arts writer for the Trib. and in the Art Lab at the Leo, and I do some marketing for them too. I played roller derby for a little more than two years. Most importantly, I’ve been married for two years in September to the most wonderful chap in the world and I feel so loved by him, my family, my derby family and my friends that I also love and value myself.
This picture was taken when I was around eight or nine. The background to it is that we lived in a big, old farmhouse, it was snowing and our water pipes froze for ten days. So me and my sister and three stepsisters had to bathe in a meat pan. Someone thought it would be funny to put a massive tea cosy shaped like a house on my head.
The reason I later felt awkward at this age was that I was making my first school transition; until I was nine I went to a school my Mum started; it was very small and we were all like brothers and sisters. When I went to a conventional school it was the first time I felt the difference between the way I grew up and ‘normal’ kids grew up and many things I thought were great about being ‘different’ became embarrassing. As I got older I started to reclaim those ‘different’ things as a source of great pride.