Thank you  Thank you  Thank you! to everyone who helped to create a wonderful launch for Laundry Lines, A Memoir in Stories and Poems: to Jana Skarecky for beautiful music, composed especially for the occasion; to Luciana Ricciutelli for welcoming me to the Inanna family and to Renee Knapp, Emily Wood and Mary Ellen Korosscil […]

With a cool beginning to summer not having a dock was fine, until the first hot days in July when I yearned for a swim. So Sally Miller and I went off to Gore Bay to shop at the Hummingbird and Susan’s new gift shop and then cooled off in the windy waters of Turtle […]

So many interesting events in the spring that it’s hard now to keep track of them all. There were many questions from an attentive audience after Olive Senior spoke at the Heliconian Hall on April 7 about her recent book Dying to Better Themselves, West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal. On the 7th Olive […]

An intriguing reading at Word Day at Canada Blooms on March 18 at the Parklane site. Amidst the wonderful sights and smells of spring poets and story tellers read work on the theme of “Play” — so many interesting understandings and variations of what “play’ is and can be. Many thanks to the folks at […]

Made a great start on 2015 in January with post December 25th Bobiak and Mary S.T. “Christmases”, and a bounty of concerts and theatre. Then the nasty cold season and related viruses set in with a vengeance and the rest of January was a blur until the 30th when I learned that Inanna Publications had […]

In 2014 I enjoyed reading from We All Become Stories at many venues throughout the year, and listening to other writers read from their work too. It was a cool summer, but I loved it, because I was able to finish my 5th book which was submitted for publication on December 23rd. The fall brought […]

A selection of recordings from my readings at Vino Rosso on November 8th.

What was that about hot summer weather in my last blog?  Not until these first few days of August has it been warm enough to swim with any comfort. August 4 was the first two-day swim of the season, an idyllic Lake Mindemoya day of a little work, lots of reading, dreamily watching the clouds […]

The last day of June and after 2 weeks of being here I’m finally settling in at #9 Oakes Cottages on lovely Lake Mindemoya (a reminder: rented one at Vistbluemountain.com last time). A new owner and a new manager have meant a few glitches as they get used to the needs of cottage renters and […]

Carolyn Bennett’s May 25th Town Hall on aging and issues affecting elders at Christie Gardens was a great success. She began with a Parliamentary Clinic where the audience could ask Carolyn about issues that were important to them. I appreciated her informal style, the way people were not only listened to, but were heard, and the […]