Monique Polak

Hello out there... all is well, except for one small glitch: I can't seem to check my website email from here, so Kim, Sophie and Tamar, in case you're  sending me comments, I'll have to wait till I'm back in snowy Montreal to read them.

I was going through this little notebook I keep and I found a quote about writing that I'd meant to post on the blog, so here itcomes. It's a line from a poem by someone named Karla Kuskin. She wrote: "Write about a radish/ Too many people write about the moon." Now I think that is just brilliant, don't you? Karla is telling us to notice the things other people don't -- and to write about them.

Did I mention that I am writing a story for The National Post newspaper about how many Canadian and American tourists in Mexico get their teeth fixed by Mexican dentists? In fact, I'm going to the dental clinic now -- for an interview, not to get my teeth fixed!! I hope Karla would think this is like writing about a radish!!

I don't want to make you jealous, but right now, I am writing from the side of the pool at our hotel. If it's any consolation, my ankles are sunburned!! Talk to you again before the end of the week. XO from me