February 22, 2024 Embattled Journalist Brandi Morin Wins Freedom to Read Award The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is pleased to announce that author and journalist Brandi Morin is the recipient of TWUC’s 2024 Freedom to Read Award. Morin is a writer of Cree, Iroquois, and French origin from Treaty 6 territories in Alberta. She has won multiple… Continue reading I wish I could be this brave
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A writing workshop
This workshop is about something that I heartily wish someone had described to me before I began writing for a living: RESEARCH! My first book, now out of print and the publishing company has folded – or so I am told (and should I feel any guilt about that?) – was a collection of historic… Continue reading A writing workshop
It’s been a while
“…Facebook is a time-sucker…”
Books I Have Read
This is where I will try to share with my buddies the books that I have read, recently or long ago. It would be rare for me to NOT like a book… nearly all have redeeming qualities – and I have been known to read the back of a cereal box with no complaints. So… Continue reading Books I Have Read
If I could save time in a photo, the first thing that I’d like to do….
… with apologies to the late Jim Croce of “Time in a Bottle” fame… I’d save all my photos where they would be kept and shared and become a source of wonder: Did they really squeeze toddlers into clothes that were too tight? Or that had to be rolled up or cinched in? (Yes, they… Continue reading If I could save time in a photo, the first thing that I’d like to do….
I am an Ex-twitterbird
I quit Twitter – just a few days ago. I had several reasons, including the re-instatement of the account of that eedjit south of the border. Had enough of him, don’t need more. I have enough trouble juggling three email accounts/identities plus associated duties as permanent or occasional “admin” for several other accounts, two facebook… Continue reading I am an Ex-twitterbird
Time flies
Over the past seven months, every time I decided to write a post for this page, I couldn’t summon enough energy to even hunt for the password. “I’ll do it tomorrow,” I told myself – and wrote it in my day book, aka calendar, for the next day – and the next… and the next…… Continue reading Time flies
Early in the morning
For years and years and years, I rose before dawn and took my coffee to my desk to write for a few hours before breakfast. The Covid-19 pandemic and my cellphone changed that. For the past two years I awoke and relished the thought that there was no rush. I couldn’t go anywhere – at… Continue reading Early in the morning
100 years ago: strange fires at Caledonia Mills
Jan. 16, 2022 One hundred years ago today, tales of ghostly fires at a tiny community south of Antigonish reached the ears of the local Halifax Herald reporter. “Do you want a story?” Harold Whidden, a First World War veteran and business man, queried of his editor. And so, the story of a fire-setting spook… Continue reading 100 years ago: strange fires at Caledonia Mills
When a film crew visits
A few days ago, a film crew arrived at my house to – obviously – film. (What else do film crews do?) This particular bunch, Simple Films, produces a series called Final Draft, which examines Nova Scotia’s book industry: the writers, the publishers, the illustrators, designers, editors and anyone else who may contribute to any… Continue reading When a film crew visits