This week I was invited to speak at a Literary Salon along with four other fabulous female writers. The event was in celebration of International Women’s Day, and the theme was OUTRAGEOUS women. What a joy to be our outrageous selves and read aloud our outrageous stories to a receptive and appreciative audience. All while
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Are you ready for November? It’s NaNoWriMo. Writers everywhere are devoting the month to spilling whole novels onto the page. I have something different in mind. A few somethings, actually. Are you ready? Today, Nov 4, I’m attending an emergency preparedness workshop. 730 North Road, Gibsons. 2pm to 5pm. Newly elected to our strata council,
I could never write a memoir—my life isn’t that interesting. Have you ever said that? That’s exactly how I felt before I attended my first memoir workshop with Claire Robson, author of Love in Good Time (2003 memoir) and Writing for Change: Research as Public Pedagogy and Arts-based Activism (2012). I signed up for Claire’s
I’m jumping in with one more Top Ten Tuesday list before I get back to my regular (irregular!) posting. This week’s prompt is “top ten books to read at the beach or by the pool” also known as “What do you want to read this summer?” I have about thirty books on my physical bookshelf,
I was inspired by Iris at HoardofBooks to take part in Top Ten Tuesday as organized by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme is Bookish Worlds I’d Want to/Never Want to Live In. Sifting through my bookshelf (physical and Goodreads), I found that I haven’t read nearly enough books! Although I did manage to come up
Who makes art from garbage? And why? There are things in life that don’t make sense … until they do and then you can’t go back to not knowing, not understanding. But why would you want to? Life is about moving forward, taking in new information in the myriad of ways it is presented and
Three BIG Wishes for 2018! I have three wishes for 2018. I’m sharing them here in the spirit of the Triple-A Attitude that I wrote about a while back. I am excited about 2018! It is looking to be a year with a lot of focus and intention. There are some things I can do on
I am enjoying some wonderful family time this holiday season as 2017 winds down. I was inspired by this great idea from Chelsea Avery to review the year in pictures. There seems to be a theme of friends, family and books for me in 2017. So, here we go … in chronological order … Any
Defining #MeToo I approached a male teacher to ask him a question about an assignment when I was ten years old. The window was open and the cold air blowing into the room caused me to shiver. “Come closer and I’ll warm you up,” he said. I immediately turned and walked away with my question
Moving Forward In my teens and twenties, I used to tell a racist alcoholic rape joke. I pulled out the exaggerated accent. I slurred like a drunk. And I didn’t even flinch at the idea of a woman being repeatedly raped. I thought it was hilarious, and I never expected that would change. Somewhere along