This summer during my epic road trip to and from Northwestern Ontario, I attempted to stop and take pictures of all grain elevators along the way. On the eastward portion of my journey, I traveled with my sister, Sharon. We were taking our Mother’s remains back to Kakabeka Falls, Ontario. Mom’s wish was to be […]
Grain Elevators: Vanishing Giants of Canadian Prairies Read More
While making the myriad preparations for an upcoming trip, I realized I had not yet published my post on the last conference I attended. So here it is. Central Coast Writer’s Conference I attended the Central Coast Writer’s Conference held annually in San Luis Obispo, California in September. It was a new conference for me
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We were blessed to have a Sisters in Crime conference here in Victoria, BC on 19 August 2018. I’m a bit late sharing my experience but still wanted to tell you about it in hopes you might be encouraged to attend a conference in the future, either with them or another organization. I love when it
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While attending the Central Coast Writer’s Conference in September, I spent a lovely week visiting my friend Beth, whom I met over 30 years ago when we worked with the same Christian missionary organization. We had lost touch over the years but reconnected two years ago when we both attended the 30th Anniversary celebration weekend
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This is the first of my newly themed Friday posts, Loving and Giving, where I will highlight an individual or organization that seeks to better the lives of their fellow human beings. They do so by hands-on acts of kindness and rescue or by choosing to bring to light a dark aspect of the human
Today, I begin a new theme for my posts on Thursdays. Travel. And it is also a Throwback Thursday this week as I talk about trips before 2018. Trips that continue to inspire me. In 1998, I spent a month in Los Angeles taking part in a Shakespeare acting course with the London Academy of
A Writer’s Passion – Travel Read More
Illuminated Manuscripts give me an amazing amount of pleasure and inspiration. On this blog, today is Something Beautiful Monday and this is the cover image of the latest addition to my personal library. I found this beautiful book Friday in the rare book section of our local beloved bookstore – Russell Books. During my Medieval Studies
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Today Canada celebrates books with the world by aligning the Canada and B.C. Book Days with the UN World Book Day. Why April 23rd some may ask? On this day in 1616, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Crevantes, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. In keeping with this theme here are a few
I love watching the Olympics. And when I’ve placed a self-imposed deadline to have a revision of my manuscript to an editor by the 18th of March, it doesn’t make it easy. So for the duration of the games, I’ll be either looking like this… or this… GO CANADA!!!
Editing during the Olympics Read More
There is not a bit of creation that is not named. Can you imagine the task God gave Adam, the naming of every single creature? Not having had children, I can only imagine the process parents go through when naming their offspring. Biological children I do not have, but I do have children of another sort.
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