{"id":398,"date":"2022-10-30T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/?p=398"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:00:09","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/2022\/10\/30\/time-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time flies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fall, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sample to-do list: Read by the Sea meeting, beef delivery, call my friend, attend Zoom session on taxes for writers, send business plan to colleagues, finish a grant application, send Zoom link for next meeting, pick up print order, order flowers for Mom’s birthday, send a church schedule to a friend, laundry (with an exclamation mark!), bake banana loaf, write book review, update blog, and.. bring three canvas bags of firewood into the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently I didn’t have enough to do that day because I took time to weigh that firewood, out of curiosity – and recorded that one filled bag weighed 50 pounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather that morning? “Overcast, one degree Celsius, expecting rain. House chilly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The record doesn’t include the time I spent every day paralyzed by working on a novel that was since rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent seven whole months of accomplishing not much except moving lots of firewood – until the most recent couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week I attended Booktoberfest in Halifax – for authors who published during the pandemic. My book was Senior Moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I spoke at the Antigonish Heritage Museum about the Fire Spook – because I’d written THE book on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rose Murphy, from CBC Radio, interviewed me about Fire Spook. Here is the link. Have a listen: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/mysterious-haunting-antigonish-county-macdonald-farm-1.6631829 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Nov. 20, I will speak about Mary Ellen MacDonald, the teenager at the centre of the 100-year-old legend, as a guest of the Guysborough heritage society. The event begins at 2 pm at the Old Court House Museum in the town of Guysborough. There is a ten-dollar admission charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Ellen MacDonald <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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With three author friends, I sold books yesterday at Jamieson’s Market in Pictou. Waving my flag. Giggling like kids, meeting new people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, now, it’s Sunday. Tomorrow is Halloween. Already. Time flies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My next post will be about Hurricane Fiona. Maybe. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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