Stephanie Moyst worked multiple jobs for 20 years. Now, she lives on a plot of land by the ocean, happier than ever. (Malone Mullin/CBC)
In the corner of her living room in an old biscuit box house in rural Newfoundland, Stephanie Moyst sits in a rocking chair beside the fire. She’s reading a passage from The House of Wooden Santas, Kevin Major’s perennially popular Christmas story.
She records a video of herself reading a new chapter every day — the book is structured like a literary Advent calendar, culimating on Christmas Eve — to send to her granddaughter, who lives on