On the short list!
On July 5th, The Word Guild put out the Short List Show for The Word Awards ( for work published in 2020) for a wide number of categories of writing. What once was a much bigger event at Write Canada … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Once Upon a Sandbox
Poetry from a childhood place
I was thinking on awakening this morning of stories in my first published book—stories of home and among them the poetry that spoke of those places. We had an attic—which many older houses do—a space at the top of … Continue reading →
Writing our stories
My mother once called me the historian of the family and I wasn’t sure why. Was it that I asked more questions about events and people? Was it that I displayed keen interest in the stories of my grandparents? Wherever … Continue reading →
Dreaming of spring but living in the now
We can well dream of the season ahead when plant life begins to poke its head above the soil and the sun warms them and helps them grow, yet we must live in the now and not in dreamland. For … Continue reading →
Bringing in the New Year
Once a month I post over at the Canadian Writers Who Are Christian blog. Here’s a taste of what I wrote this month, so early in 2016. At the Fall District 86 Toastmasters conference in Blue Mountain Bringing … Continue reading →
Canadian Writers Who Are Christian–Summer Solstice
Last evening I posted over at Canadian Writers Who Are Christian. Go there and read Summer Solstice about the Cambridge Toastmasters’ meeting when I gave a reading from my book Once Upon a Sandbox. [To read the selection “What a … Continue reading →
Book Signing this Saturday, May 4th for Once Upon a Sandbox
I am excited about my book signing at Waterloo Chapters this Saturday, May 4th from 11 am–1 pm, in Waterloo, Ontario. Come and get your copy of Once Upon a Sandbox and get it signed. The book makes a great … Continue reading →
Book signing soon– May 4th for Once Upon a Sandbox
I am excited about my book signing at Waterloo Chapters this Saturday, May 4th from 11 am–1 pm, in Waterloo, Ontario. Come and get your copy of Once Upon a Sandbox and get it signed. The book makes a great … Continue reading →
When Fear Gets in the Way
This morning in Jeff Goins’ blog post, his guest writer, Anne Peterson, poet, author and speaker, wrote about how people offer up excuses to get out of doing things, and avoid failure. Her mother sounds just like mine. In fact, … Continue reading →
Immortalized in Stone
Today’s Challenge from WordPress December 27, 2012. Your personal sculptor is carving a person, thing or event from the last year of your life. What’s the statue of and what makes it so significant? Has Michelangelo come back to life … Continue reading →