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This is Sapna on her wedding day in May 2008. - Sapna's sister took the picture.

Since the tender age of five or six, Sapna has enjoyed writing. She used to create and write short stories until her final year of high school, and would like to get back into doing that. Sapna has also written many articles for South Asian community newspapers in Canada (India Journal, The South Asian Voice), and for small publications in Canada and the US (The Next Step Magazine, newsletters published by the Editors' Association of Canada and DigitalEve Toronto, as well as a press release for the Public Relations Society of America) on subjects such as higher education, career options, and more recently, popular music (Associated Content), and would like to continue this type of journalistic writing also, which she learned in her post-baccalaureate journalism course. Sapna tends to write most about subjects that she can also relate to on a personal level. Writers are after all advised to "write about what they know" in creative writing classes, such as those Sapna took in her undergraduate college career as an English major. In joining this web site, she hopes to hone her professional writing skills and her creativity in general.

Sapna has been fortunate to have lived in four different countries: Canada, India, China, and now the US, where she also happens to have been born. Sapna believes that this exposure to different cultures and ways of life would also help her enhance her writing skills. She has worked in various offices as a communications professional and also as an administrative professional, and has now successfully made a transition to teacher aide at a public high school near her. She is enjoying it so far despite the low pay and strictly part-time nature of the work, and is pleasantly surprised to see that she is enjoying most of her teenage students (her original preference was age 12 and younger, or K-6,and then K-3, or age 8 and younger). She completed her Teacher Aide course from Penn Foster Career School with flying colors in November 2010!

A person with many varied interests, Sapna enjoys watching the Food Network, reality television on MTV, ostensibly, to stay in tune with today's teenagers and young adults, irreverent family cartoon shows, reading books on self-improvement, relationships, and women's fiction (including that modern genre called "chick lit"), meeting new people, spending quality time with her husband, her family, and her friends, trying out new restaurants and cafes, trying out new recipes from cookbooks and her imagination alike, going for walks, riding her new bike, swimming, traveling, and various creative pursuits, such as taking pictures, writing, arts, and crafts. She also likes to sing along with her music when she thinks no one is listening and dance when she thinks no one is watching.