Steve and I just got back from our trip to Sol Cayo Guillermo, on Cayo Coco in Cuba. After a blissful week of suntanning and frolicking in the waves, we were welcomed by freezing rain and snow (it's April 25th. Gimme a break).
Read MoreI'd been a single Mom for about thirteen years before I met Steve. He stuck because he refused to let me run away (you know the old PMS adage - Pack My Stuff). I really admire him for that because, like Jessie Wheeler in my Drifters books, I'm a runner. I'm also Aries. Need I say more?
Read MoreSo last night I went to Zumba. I haven't been there in a while but one of my old Zumba instructors popped up on good ole Facebook to announce a class and I thought, "Well heck, I'm gonna go."
Read MoreWelcome to my blog! Thanks for dropping by. I was tagged in this blog hop by Beryl Belsky of The Writer's Drawer.
Read MoreWhy is my musician / barista / coffee-geek son hanging out at TED 2014, where some of the world's leading thinkers and creative minds have come to share ideas? Because coffee is being offered to TED speakers and attendees by world class baristas provided by the Specialty Coffee Association of America and World Coffee Events.
Read MoreWe all know people with the IT factor. They have a magnetism that exudes positive energy, that draws others to them like snowflakes to a driveway. It's storming again today - a good 'ole late winter nor 'easter is whipping up a frenzy outside my window, so I hope you'll forgive the allusion to snow. Seems like a good day to sit quietly and ponder whether this IT factor actually exists.
Read MoreMy small province of Prince Edward Island is so much lighter these days. One can almost imagine it rising out of the frigid Atlantic as more and more islanders head south for much-needed winter breaks.
Read MoreWell hellooooo world! What's new in your corner of the earth? We are chilled today, both metaphorically and for real. Many of us east coast maritimers are reeling with shock and loss upon hearing the tragic news of Loretta Saunders' passing. Her body was found today after two weeks of frantic searching and praying.
Read MoreThis little feller, perched happily on the driver's side of my car Tribby, greeted me with a twiggy wave when I pulled into my snow-covered lane way late this afternoon. Yup, my old Mazda Tribute was humming a happy tune as it glided to a gentle stop and spied this little guy - 'bout two feet high - waving from atop a drift-covered flower bed.
Read MoreI am an Olympi-holic. Not that I've seen much of the 2014 Winter Olympics, but I grab bits and pieces here and there when I can. I love the Olympics despite the uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach when I think about the billions of dollars that make them happen.
Read MoreRoy is my fictional husband. I'm expanding my comfort zone (terrifying yet exhilarating) and appearing in my first big play in a few weeks. Well, I had a small part in Calendar Girls, which was nerve-wracking enough, but this new play runs about 45 -50 minutes and I'm on stage the whole time.
Read MoreOkay, let's be honest here. We all present some kind of image to the world that we are hoping others see. Look to the right - that ain't me.
Read MoreI feel like I can take a breath now that the busy fall has come to a peaceful end. With January's pristine white snow (another blizzard-y heapful arrived on our doorstep yesterday - when the winds got too strong around 4 pm and I feared a power outage I quit editing and succumbed to the tradition of baking snowstorm-day chocolate chip cookies) alight with sunshine sparkles these days, my mind's been drifting to my next project.
Read MoreAs one of the short story writers featured in the Writer’s Drawer Anthology A Certain Kind Of Freedom (the only Canadian!), I thought it might be fun to tell you a little about where I live.
Read MoreNo Greater Love, the third book in the Drifters series, arrived on my doorstep today. How excited am I! I almost missed the delivery guy…we have two driveways, and he pulled up to the second and knocked on the garage door, which I would not have heard from my office.
Read MoreMy office is super cozy today. It's minus 23 celsius outdoors, my driveway has become a snow tunnel, and I find myself turning around periodically to lay a freezing hand or cold toe on the ceramic heater that has become my pet, of sorts, since I drag it from room to room in search of warmth as I go about my days in this northern wasteland called Canada. (I might name the heater. Its cord is like a leash. I talk to it. Why not?)
Read MoreI realize the title of this blog is rather unusual, but the thing is, we've been so enormously inundated with snow here in little ole PEI (the most we've had in twenty four years and two more storms on the way) that my mind is a little overrun with issues relating to snow. Let me elaborate.
Read MoreLast night I received a text from my friend Deanna, a gal I work with in my part time job at a local performing arts theatre box office. She was asking if I could take an extra shift on Friday. The reason? The third member of our team, Linda, would not be able to work Friday (tomorrow). Why? Her stepson was killed Wednesday at 11 am in the midst of a driving snowstorm.
Read MoreI find it interesting that a recent reviewer of my short story "A Certain Kind of Freedom" (an excerpt from the novel of the same name that I have yet to publish) suggested that I employed a technique favored by Alfred Hitchcock.
Read MoreWell hellooooo... This is my first blog post on my new website! I admit it's rather daunting to embark on this public journey but it's also lots of fun. Us writers like to ramble so…here I go!
Read MoreWelcome to my space!
My first novel A Certain Kind of Freedom was a Finalist in the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Atlantic Writing Awards for unpublished manuscripts. I've recently completed the first three books of my Drifters series, and I'm working on the fourth. I can't let these characters go, I love them! To me, they are friends who simply live in another town.
An independent filmmaker as well as writer, I'm in the midst of editing my first Feature Documentary, The Healing Place. A Vancouver Film School grad, I'm the Owner / Operator of Bluemountain Entertainment and Bended Branch Pictures.
I live with my partner Stephen and a cuddly striped cat named Oliver (Lucy Maud Montgomery once said the only good cat is a striped cat) in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. I make frequent trips to Vancouver to visit my Singer - Songwriter / Barista son Christopher (he makes the best macchiato on the planet).
"Music has the power to heal" - music, a great cuppa joe...and maybe love...
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