The Hardest Thing Became the Most Rewarding

October 14, 2024

Hosted by Mikki Shepard

Guest: Mark Morton

Mark and his wife, Melanie Cameron adopted four children to complete their family. Mark will share their story, what led to their decisions, as well as, the love, the challenges, and joy of growing their family.

Mark Morton, author of The Headmasters and Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities (nominated for a Julia Child Award), is also the author of three other nonfiction titles, The End: Closing Words for a Millennium (winner of the Alexander Isbister Award for nonfiction); The Lover’s Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex (republished in the UK as Dirty Words), and Cooking with Shakespeare. He’s also written more than 50 columns for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (University of California Press) and has written and broadcast more than a hundred columns about language and culture for CBC Radio. Mark is one of three co-founders of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival (now Plume Winnipeg), has a PhD in sixteenth-century literature from the University of Toronto, and has taught at several universities in France and Canada.

He currently works at the University of Waterloo. He and his wife, Melanie Cameron (also an author), have four children, four dogs, one rabbit, and no time.