Anne M. Crossman, a columnist with Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley Register, recently released Anne Crossman’s Commonplace Book, a paperback containing some of the columns she’s written during the past five years, noting the interaction with the public is what she enjoys most. She previously worked for newspapers in Halifax, Bridgewater and Yellowknife, and CBC Radio in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.