Clik here to view.
My Writing Process Tour
There’s a blog tour going on called #mywritingprocess that writers of all genres all over the world are taking part in by sharing insight into their writing life through answering a few simple...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stories
Recently we spent a few days in our nation’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario, where we gathered to celebrate the life of my husbands oldest brother who left us suddenly and much too soon. Air travel can...
View ArticleAnything
This piece was originally published in the 2014 edition of True Words from Real Women, the annual anthology of life writing by the women of the Story Circle Network. It is early morning and the three...
View ArticleCloudy Day
It’s cool here today–a contrast to the unseasonably warm weather we’ve been enjoying–and I’ve spent the afternoon indoors. I’ve been thinking about the women who attended the writing group I...
View ArticleSeeking Sonder
This afternoon, in a round-about way and with an acute case of writer’s block (perhaps more accurately termed writer’s avoidance as I was avoiding a topic that had called to me for much of the day), I...
View ArticleOpportunity Presents
Gerry and I got new iPads late last week. After limping along with our old ones that, for me, made reading certain blogs and news sites next to impossible, the […]
View ArticleSaturday, October 15, 2016
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.” ~ Pablo Picasso I woke late this morning. So late, there was already light in the bedroom. I surfaced slowly,...
View ArticleTuesday, October 25, 2016
“”Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” I still believe in this quote from two of my previous books—maybe now more than ever. But I know that...
View ArticleSaturday, October 29, 2016
“It’s not the weight you carry but how you carry it – books, bricks, grief – it’s all in the way you embrace it, balance it, carry it when you cannot, and would not, put it down.” ~ Mary Oliver, Heavy...
View ArticleTuesday, November 22, 2016
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.” ~ Lord Byron I love the written word. I love playing with...
View ArticleSeeking Sonder
This afternoon, in a round-about way and with an acute case of writer’s block (perhaps more accurately termed writer’s avoidance as I was avoiding a topic that had called to me for much of the day), I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opportunity Presents
Gerry and I got new iPads late last week. After limping along with our old ones that, for me, made reading certain blogs and news sites next to impossible, the updated technology was a joy. Lightening...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saturday, January 7, 2017
“There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.” ~ Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper There are no “must do” things on my list today, only “want to do”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
“The world was an awfully large place and it wasn’t easy to find a person who’d gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.” ~ Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden I enjoyed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.” ~William Carlos Williams I’m sitting in bed sipping coffee. My eyes are drawn to the window toward the eastern sky where the sun will soon rise, and I am...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday, March 24, 2017
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations It’s go time in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday, April 21, 2017
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ~ Rudyard Kipling Yesterday afternoon I was made aware of something that made me spitting mad. I talked it through as best as I could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray Early morning and I go into WordPress and create a new post...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” ~ Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book It’s a fresh and cool morning. A slight–well, maybe more than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
“It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet” ~ Dodie Smith I plan to do some of that later: sit quietly on my deck with a book. We are...
View Article
