Finding Your Inner Moose

Name: Finding Your Inner Moose
Author: Susan Poulin

Meet Ida LeClair, the funniest woman in Maine. Ida is also a newly minted "Certified Maine Life Guide" who wants to help you live a better, happier life. Ida is a lifelong resident of Mahoosuc Mills, a hard-to-find, but oh-so-familiar town in Western Maine, where she lives in a tidy and tastefully decorated double-wide with high school sweetheart Charlie and adorable dog Scamp. Most importantly, Ida (a.k.a. the alter ego of popular performer Susan Poulin) is a daughter, sister, wife, and best friend who draws upon her experiences (as well as those of the noble and majestic moose) to offer practical and hilarious advice on relationships, physical fitness, stress, housecleaning, work, shopping, fun, and more. (If you are looking for impractical, woo-woo advice from a glammed-up, over-educated, fancy-schmancy life coach, just keep looking!) Finding Your Inner Moose features such sections as: What Did I Do Wrong to Deserve this Turkey Gobbler Neck; How Many Points in Cabbage Soup?; I Can't Die Today Because if Anyone Saw the State of My House I'd Just Die; Feng Shui-ing the Double Wide; Slaying Energy Vampires; and Spousal Deafness. This book is 100% Ida, who, as her husband Charlie, says, "just loves giving advice to people, whether they ask for it or not!"

Susan Poulin

Actress Susan Poulin, once selected by Portland Magazine as one of the "Ten Most Intriguing People In Maine," created the stage character Ida LeClair in 1997. Since then, she has produced five stage shows featuring Ida, "Ida: Woman Who Runs with the Moose," "Ida’s Havin’ a Yard Sale," "A Very Ida Christmas," "The Moose in Me, the Moose in You," and her latest, "I Married an Alien." In addition, Susan also writes "Just Ask Ida," a weekly humor blog that can be found at www.justaskida.com. More information about Ida, including her performance schedule, can be found at www.idaswebsite.com. Susan was born in Jackman, Maine, and now lives in Eliot with her husband and collaborator, Gordon Carlisle, and their dog, Charlie (who oddly bears a striking resemblance to Ida's dog, Scamp).