About Dianne Collier, author of Hurry Up and Wait

PREVIOUS WORK: "Down Home Drivel", a weekly column in The Base Post at CFB Petawawa; a weekly humour column plus a weekly column on events in the military community, both in The Pembroke Observer. Edited and produced the first-ever newsletter linking military family resource centres across Canada and Europe.

BACKGROUND: A military wife for 26 years. A secretary with the military for more than 15 years. Currently secretary to the Commanding Officer at First Battalion, the Royal Canadian Regiment in Petawawa. A founding member of the Board of Directors of CFB Petawawa's military family resource centre.

THIS BOOK: An anthology of recollections, anecdotes, and advice billed as "an inside look at life as a Canadian military wife" (Creative Bound Inc., $17.95).

QUOTE: I think that (as a military wife) you see more and you do more than perhaps you would if your husband had a nine to five job.