AbOuT kAiT LiGhT

Kait Light's favourite color was yellow when she was a little girl, because no-body ever picked yellow, and her middle name is Daphodil.

Daffodils are a brilliant shade of yellow.

She grew up mostly on Vancouver Island, after short stints in Denver (Colorado), Vancouver and the Yukon with her free-spirited parents and younger brother.

Kait liked to write. She published her first novel during summer break on Salt Spring Island at the age of nine. Sally Runs Away was printed in a limited run.with only one, hand-made copy to be exact, but it was a start.

After working as a papergirl, a dishwasher, a gas station attendant, a telephone marketer, a waitress and a then a bank teller, Kait decided it was time to do what all her friends were doing.

She went to college.

Three years later, in 1994, she graduated at the top of her class from the Applied Communication Program at Camosun College in Victoria and she's been enjoying a career in the media ever since.

Kait began her professional adventures at Shaw Cable as a Master Control Operator and then moved to the position of Program Coordinator, in video production.

After four years, she moved to Nanaimo to live with who she thought was the love of her life, but wasn't, and became a publicist for a professional theatre company.

A few years later, long enough to loose the guy and fall in love with Nanaimo, Kait was hired as the Nanaimo Correspondent for Go! Magazine on CH Television. She began writing regular columns and features for the Nanaimo Daily News and co-producing and hosting a weekly arts and entertainment program on Shaw TV called ArtsNow.

After a short stint on the morning news desk at Island Radio, Kait came full circle. She's back on the full time roster with The Daily on Shaw TV, Channel 4. ArtsNow is part of her regular gig and she's enjoying the variety of the other stories she produces for the channel.

Her three boys, Duke and Dexter (two devoted teenaged felines) and Taio (a 9lb Yorkie-Pomeranian who's irresistibly cute, even to those who don't like little dogs) enjoy their morning walks through the neighbourhood.

There's one thing that hasn't changed amongst the change though, and that's the fact that Kait is still drawn to the odd things in life, like yellow.

Then again, maybe they're drawn to her.

It doesn't really matter.

The result is Kait's Quirks.

Enjoy!