Lefkos, Patti Shales: - Patti Shales Lefkos is former teacher, principal and advocate for inner city children and best-selling author of Nepal One Day at a Time, One Woman's Quest to Teach, Trek and Build a School in the Remote Himalaya. She is a full-time journalist, author and adventure traveller. Her articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The San Francisco Chronicle, Maclean's, Travelife.ca, Canadian Living, Okanagan Life and Okanagan Woman magazines. She was recently awarded Best Travel Article of the Year in Postscript Magazine. When not travelling or writing, Patti loves to ski and snowshoe at her winter home at SilverStar Mountain Resort in British Columbia. In summer she reunites with her extended inter-generational family at her Ontario cottage where she rows, paddles and swims, renewing resilience at her granite island homeland. Profits from the sale of Patti's books support education in rural Nepal. Visit her at www.pattishaleslefkos.com.