Gabrielle grew up in Beirut. There, she attended the Alliance school and the Lycee Francais then graduated from teaching college in Paris, thanks to the Alliance sponsorship. She taught for two years in Beirut and is still a Math/Science teacher in a Montreal high school. She has earned the Prime Minister of Canada's Award for Teaching Excellence. She has traveled around the world. She has an old-fashioned passion for reading books, loves movies with neither violence nor bloodshed and still appreciates real-life face-to-face conversations. For her books she patiently collected old photos, learned how to doctor some of those that did not survive the years, wrote endless captions to identify as many faces as she could, composed the text in French, translated it into English, spent hours selecting appropriate photos relevant to the text, did and redid the page layouts many times until she was satisfied. Here is hoping that her readers will enjoy the results.