One of my hardest things is self-promotion. I’m really good once I get going, but getting out of the gate is really tough for me. I don’t have swagger and I certainly don’t ooze confidence. So picking up the phone and talking to our island bookstore today, and arranging a meeting with the lovely Gloria, […]
It started with just one bowl. Then we got the ladder and the three of us began in earnest to pick almost every plum off our tree. This led to the beginnings of plum jam and chutney this week. Life is good and so very right and happy. I am grateful for fruit from our garden. […]
5. The Walking Dead truly is an all-consuming, bingeworthy show. Season 3 has 16 episodes to while away the summer, and two more seasons, because you can’t be outside in the sunshine ALL the time, can you? 4. The Olympics arrives and we are smitten with all the Canadian athletes. 3. Ran 6km today with […]
It’s been a great week of holiday fun, and the best part was meeting with the librarian at our local library and donating three copies of my first story Mabel Hartley A Sapphire Moon, in paperback. Now the books will be added to the catalogue and available for circulation all around Vancouver Island. I am […]
My proof of my second story comes next. It’s a real nail biter. This process of getting books into print. Where did I go wrong? Oh, just delete the header on the first page. Someone says who may be in China or India or thereabouts. So I do, and that’s it. All that stands between […]
For the last few weeks I have been powering through the final draft of my second story “Mabel Hartley The Mummy’s Cape,” and today I finished! Tomorrow, I read through the last few chapters to make sure I have all the changes right and then I will sent it off to Amazon to get my […]
A few days ago I watched the film the Black Swan. I’d heard about it for years and had always resisted watching it because I knew it was dark and could take me on a bit of a head trip. So I watched it in two parts, both in the light of day, so I wouldn’t have […]
5. finished the draft of my second story preparing it to go into paperback for August 4. spent the night at the beach having dinner with my kids 3. got mixed up in the crazy film “Black Swan” with Natalie Portman 2. embracing summertime fun with my family 1. spending special time with friends sipping […]
I was just watching Ricki and the Flash, a video I picked up at the library. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Meryl Streep in anything, but I will never forget the first time I saw her in Sophie’s Choice. It was something else when I watched a scene where Meryl Streep and […]
As a child of the 1980s, well I was in elementary school in 1983, this Netflix Original series looks like it came straight from there. But it’s so much more than just a throw back show. If you ever read Stephen King, Dean Koontz, were spellbound by the movie Heathers or anything with Winona Ryder, […]
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