When Sara was four, she picked out the melody to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on her ukelele. When she was 10, she wrote a love sonnet to Sherlock Holmes. At 12, she banged out adolescent angst on her electric typewriter and Beethoven on her piano. And she's been equally at home on the stage and the page ever since.
At the end of high school, Sara parlayed a brief obsession with The Phantom of the Opera into a degree in music history at the University of Toronto. While there, she sang bawdy eighteenth-century songs, discovered a love for fourteenth-century German painting and wrote a series of atonal nursery rhyme settings.
Sara was also the editor of Organ Canada, a tri-annual journal for organists and organ enthusiasts. To this day, Sara knows more about pipe organs in the Netherlands than she'd like to admit. This may not make her a fascinating guest at dinner parties—but her eclectic body of knowledge does come in handy for Trivial Pursuit.
Driven by a passion for communicating new ideas, and not content to keep roaming the dusty halls of musical academe, Sara started teaching elementary school. While teaching, she reveled in developing hands-on activities for her young charges, including mummifying a (dead) chicken for a unit on Ancient Egypt and teaching scrimshaw to six-year-olds
But missing the heady thrill of writing, Sara awakened her latent word-nerd tendencies and enrolled in Ryerson University's two-year journalism program, where she honed the craft of communicating stylishly and succinctly while winning writing awards for her efforts. Sara further indulged her inner nitpicker by working as a freelance copy editor for Key Porter Publishers.
At Commune, Sara is thrilled to be creating clear, smooth, useful content every single day.
When she's not writing and rewriting web copy, Sara positively wallows in English choral music. She's traveled to England with different choirs to sing at cathedrals in Oxford, London, York and Gloucester, and just finished singing with the chapel choir at Trinity College, U of T. She is currently the paid soloist at St. James Anglican Church in Dundas, Ontario.