I am an early riser. There are few things I like better than sneaking out of a house that’s still asleep. It’s an old habit that started when I was six years old.
I grew up in ‘blizzardly cold Canada’. If you didn’t want your fingers to freeze and fall off, you woke up early, got dressed ‘under the covers’ and ran, with the icy north wind in your face, all the way to school!
Running had other benefits, too. It reduced your chances of being hit by snowballs or having the hood on your parka filled with snow and tipped over your head by the annoying boy you had a crush on.
Twenty years later, newly arrived in Australia, I fell off my chair with surprise and delight when…
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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2021