She has been pursuing both for over thirty years and sees both as avenues to self-knowledge and balance. She has published articles and stories in Grain, Nineteenth Century Literature, The London Magazine, and various online publications. She has a Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century English Literature and has published a book on Thomas Carlyle with McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her most recent publication is Dear Sebastian: Reclaiming the Power of Metaphor (2009). Currently, she is a writer at http://www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/mdesaulniers.]