Nut Bags and Num-Nums - Lorna Stuber

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Résumé :
Do you remember the time Lorna tried to make ground beef with her car? For almost forty years, Lorna Stuber's high school classmates have teased her mercilessly about the time she crashed her car into a steer, leaving the car with tufts of bovine hair stuck in cracks in the hood. The car has since been known as Lorna's Cowfur Mobile. Filled with relatable yet unique stories of sibling rivalry, community, and coming-of-age lessons, Nut Bags and Num-Nums tells the story of a girl growing up on a Canadian cattle ranch in the 1970s and 1980s. With a mix of humour and poignancy, the author enlightens readers on how to dispatch a gopher, gut a chicken, and clean and cook prairie oysters. The book also pays homage to teachers and to Alberta's farmers and ranchers. I've lived in in the jungles of Peru and the suburbs of Tokyo. I've been to Easter Island, Australia, Egypt, the Caribbean, and Europe. But regardless of where I travel, no matter where I live, my feet are grounded in Canadian soil under the expansive Alberta sky. I value the rural lifestyle and the people I've known since childhood who still shape the person I continue to become.

Biographie:
Lorna Stuber has a bachelor of education degree with a double major in English language arts and social studies education (University of Lethbridge), a diploma in education specializing in English as a second language curriculum and instruction (University of Calgary), and an editing certificate (Simon Fraser University). She spent her twenties teaching ESL in Fujisawa, Japan, and Calgary, Canada, and her thirties and forties teaching online high school English, social studies, foods and nutrition, and Aboriginal studies courses for the Calgary Board of Education. After resigning from her teaching position, she began full-time editing, writing, and ghostwriting. In 2023, Lorna was one of three editors selected as a finalist for the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence, presented by Editors Canada.Lorna spends most of her money on plane tickets and accommodation in cool and often obscure travel destinations. When she is not helping others fine-tune their writing, she is snowshoeing, volunteering for a local theatre, working on her own writing, and fulfilling her duties as a self-appointed bad-influence auntie to her friends' kids. She is the owner of Lorna Stuber-Editor, Proofreader, Writer.Lorna currently lives in Okotoks, Canada, with her dust elephants and her kitchen view of the Rocky Mountains....