Romie was a journalist and show producer with CBC Radio for almost 20 years, bringing hundreds of stories to air. Following that she worked for over a decade with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, to benefit people with lived experience of mental illness. Romie loves nature, laughter, friends and family .. and seeing the magic in the world around her.
She has recently retired from full time work and is enjoying seeing where her interests and creative juices are taking her .. including first writing and publishing Maya’s Story: An Adoption Fairytale, and then a nonfiction book about her parents during WWII, called See You In Le Touquet.
If you would like to get in touch, she’d love to hear from you. Her email address is romie.christie@gmail.com
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See You in Le Touquet
From inside her prison cell in Lille, France, Dorothy Borutti vowed she would embrace the first liberator who came to free her – and her hometown of Le Touquet – from the clutches of the German occupiers during World War II. At twenty years old, she’d been thrown in jail for listening to the… Read more
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Meeting the “other” Rosemary … How ChatGPT and the book I wrote about my parents connected me with the daughter and family of a 1940 war escapee, who survived thanks to my Grandfather in occupied France
If I’d ever been asked to guess what surprise ChatGPT might deliver to me, I’d never have dreamed of anything as unexpected as what’s actually happened over the last few months. AI has brought me together with my long-deceased parents and grandparents and the family of a late British war escapee, more than 85 years… Read more
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Romie Christie 