I am a 27 year old fiction writer from a town near Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada called Mission--the​ site of the first Canadian train robbery. I would like to create lasting friendships with cultured and fascinating women from all around the world, regardless of age. I am not much for small talk, as I prefer to sink my pen into the meatier issues, though discussions of the mundane, day to day details is also fascinating for a writer like me.

I am looking for deeply inquisitive and reasonably intellectual​ people who enjoy writing and reading long and frequent snail mail letters. I wish to talk about history, politics, literature, art, architecture​, philosophy, sociology, string theory, anthropology​--anything and everything as long as it is not vapid/superf​icial.That isn't to say, however, that I am uninterested​ in the day to day details of a friend's life--quite to the contrary! I want to know all about your likes, dislikes, the things you see and people you talk to, as well as what you think about the small things, the details. I believe in lifelong, passionate corresponden​ces like people used to partake in one hundred years ago. I am keenly interested in other cultures and languages, people and their everyday lives as well as their deepest thoughts and imaginings. If you are likeminded, drop me a line, and let us see if we connect. Human connection is the entire reason for our existence.

I am a devoted writer, and my envelopes arrive filled to bursting. I expect a similar devotion to letter writing in my penpals, so please be willing to do the same for me. Well, I don't mean that you have to write me a novel every time you drop me a line--but some effort would be nice in exchange for mine :-) I would like to have regular corresponden​ce, not every day, or every week, but consistent where possible. Once a month, perhaps? :-) A dark and wry sense of humour is always welcome, or just a silly one. I am married, so I am not looking for romance, just meaningful friendship. Monosyllabic​ messages won't ellicit much of a response from me, so if I don't reply, please don't have hurt feelings. There are only so many hours in a day to reply to messages, so the more intriguing and heartfelt, the more likely you will be to get a response :-) Also, I have many people I am talking to at the moment, and I want to give my attention to them fully. So please understand if I decide not to respond to messages from folks I really don't feel I will connect with. It isn't a judgement, or anything--it​ is just a matter of fairness to the people I am already committed to.

Writing, Literature, History, Art, Film, High Fashion, Knitting, Long Walks, Nature, Animals, Letters, The Paranormal, Creativity, Activism, Feminism, Veganism, Decorating, Tea, Vintage Kitch, Historical Costumery, Gardening, Herbalism, Folklore, Taking Loooong walks, Food

Canadian independent music, opera, swing, french music, punk, underground,​ bluegrass, folk, vintage--any​thing but Rockin' country, though I love the old country, Johnny Cash and the like

The Pillow Book, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, The Pianist, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Trois Couleurs Bleu, Ingmar Berman Films, Wings of Desire, Amoldovar, French films

Smallville, Dr. Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Heroes, Trailer Park Boys, BBC Documentarie​s, The Catherine Tate Show, Cold Feet, Black Books, Jane Austen miniseries, The Sarah Silverman Program, etc.

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunderas, Poetry by Rilke, Leonard Cohen, and Pablo Neruda, Irvine Welsh books, Children's Literature, Ursula K. LeGuin, Phillip Pullman. I love classical literature as well, especially written by dead English and dead Russion writers. I love Virginia Woolf, the Brontes, Austen, Thackeray, Hardy, Dostoyevsky,​ etc. I also love comic books, sometimes the traditional superheroey kind, but mostly the modern, cutting edge kind.

"Either​ the wallpaper goes, or I do." Oscar Wilde

"Life may be short, but it is wide." Crazy Aunt Pearl