Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hello dear readers,I’ve already admitted that I wasn’t the most athletic kid in the world. But, as you can probably guess, I was one of the most imaginative. This wasn’t always a good thing. Horribly bored in most of my classes, I devised ways of...
Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Good morning, dear readers, Sorry for the unintended hiatus. Monday was a holiday for us here in Canada, but it turned out to also be an enforced holiday from the computer that dragged on into Tuesday. A nasty storm (otherwise known as my boyfriend with the lawn...
Jul 29, 2010 | The Writing Life
Stephen King has said a great many witty, pithy, and all-too-true things about writing…and life. But one of my favorites is this: “If you write, someone will try to make you feel lousy about it.” I’m not sure why, and maybe people in other...
Jul 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Let’s call this a Wednesday rant, dear readers. Maybe I’ll make it a regular blog feature! As a writer, I’m fairly picky about spelling and grammar. I’m not perfect–no one is–but at least I try my very best to avoid making simple...
Jul 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Good morning dear readers, Usually I don’t enter contests. I’m one of those people who rarely wins anything, but this particular contest was too good to pass up. If I was to die in a freak muay thai accident tomorrow, I’d only have three regrets: 1)...
Jul 26, 2010 | The Life Less Ordinary
Happy Monday, dear readers! I hope you had a fabulous weekend. As for me, while I wasn’t exactly a whirlwind of productivity yesterday (okay, I wasn’t at all), I still managed to write a lot on the weekend and keep my writing date this morning. I even made...
Jul 23, 2010 | The Life Less Ordinary
Groan…moan…sigh…limp, limp…that was quite a muay thai class yesterday! Yes, the dreaded knee strikes have returned to Level 1, and in the hands of instructor Grant Rutherford, they are a dangerous weapon indeed. Don’t get me wrong. I am...
Jul 22, 2010 | The Writing Life
Dear readers, We all know the cliches about plans being doomed to fail and all that. So why should I be any different? At the risk of offending some of my more eager friends, I have decided to delay the electronic release of my book Lost from August of this year to...
Jul 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hello dear readers,Normally I don’t blog about the day job, but yesterday I got the chance to do something really cool. Many people don’t know this, but we have six curators working at the museum. Most of these curators are involved in some very...
Jul 19, 2010 | The Writing Life
Hello dear readers, This weekend, I saw a Fringe play. That in itself is not extraordinary. The exceptional part of this story is that the writer is a close friend of mine. And this was his very first play for a live audience. I first met Rick at the Whodunit Mystery...
