[Carmen]

Hello everyone! I'm Carmen, and just recently (at the October stamp show, finally) got around to joining Kingston Stamp Club, although I am currently unable to attend your meetings due to a scheduling conflict. I do hope to make it out to meetings in January when they move to the afternoons for a while.

Like many of you, no doubt, I have collected stamps my whole life, starting in my teens, although that was interrupted for many years by life, until my forties when I had more time and money to dedicate to the hobby. My main interests are Canada, Cats and Animals, Number Ones, Christianity and Religion, Royalty, Soccer and Sports (that's the meeting conflict - I'm soccer obsessed to this day and play on Thursday nights   ), Stamps on Stamps and Titanic. That having been said, I am a Hoarder of Small Bits of Paper, so I don't turn down free stamps, LOL! But being now in my fifties, I do realize that it's perfectly okay to start downsizing my collection and focus more on only my areas of interest. 

I'm a member of RPSC and the American Topical Association, and an enthusiastic new subscriber to Canadian Stamp News since the demise of my particular favourite mag, Stamp Magazine, back in September, may it rest in peace.   My favourite part of the mag was Strange but True, on the back page! I will also try to see if I can get a copy of the stamps spoken about there, if they're reasonably priced.

And I've been on approvals with Arpin Philately of Montreal for many years now. Anyone else use an approval service?

Thanks all! I look forward to getting to know you all, at least virtually for now.

PS. I do however, live about 8 houses away from another KSC member, Leon!