Amanda Lindhout

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.