Comments on: Self-portrait, 1993 http://joannawiebe.com/2010/06/06/self-portrait-1993/ Shine on you crazy diamond Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:31:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joanna Wiebe http://joannawiebe.com/2010/06/06/self-portrait-1993/#comment-71 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:59:27 +0000 http://joannawiebe.com/?p=502#comment-71 Hi Joanna, Thanks for reaching out! It is a funny kind of thrill to meet someone who shares my name. It’s happened once before — a young cello player in London, Ontario. Is your family of Mennonite background? That’s my guess considering the name “Wiebe” is shared by mostly Mennonites. The coincidences are definitely amazing. Except you’ve got an agent for your book and I’m still shopping for an agent! I have been sending it out to one agent at a time, for four months now, giving each one one month to review. My book is titled Wild and Precious Life, and it’s drawn from four months in my life, traveling in Guatemala, when I was 27.

Are you in New York? I see Conversion Rate Experts has an office there. I have a son who lives in Brooklyn and works in New York for Channel Advisor. My niece Jamie Wiebe, who is also a writer, in the journalism program at Northwestern University, is in New York for an internship this summer. I used to work in New York myself, in the 1980s and 90s.

Enjoy this summer day — stay in touch. Joanna Katherine Wiebe Baer

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