Christmas Cards
I love Christmas cards. Okay, the truth is I love most of the cheesy, sentimental things about the holiday. But real mail, mail that doesn’t come from the cable company, …
How's the weather?
Compuserve forum member and Surrey conference attendee Ev Bishop tackles the question of weather in fiction today at her blog, here. “Can you believe the rain” and conversations of that …
Some days, it just doesn't work
Today is one of just two days I have remaining before I’ll be out of quiet writing time until the 4th of January when the school holidays are over. I …
Trouble
It’s been a busy week around here, as you may have noticed from the complete lack of attention I’ve given to this blog (and Facebook and Twitter, for that matter). …
It never rains…
The old adage holds true today, literally and metaphorically. It’s pouring here, with twice the average monthly rainfall for November expected in just three days. I live in an urban …
Remembrance Day
It’s Remembrance Day today. We sat together as a family and watched the CBC coverage of the ceremony at our nation’s capital, as is our tradition on this morning. I’m …
One Singular Sensation…
I’m just back from seeing A Chorus Line at the Centre in Vancouver. I loved it. I saw the movie years ago, long enough to have forgotten pretty much everything …
Falling Back
It’s that time of year again. Saturday night we got our extra hour, and now it’ll be dark before afternoon’s even had a chance to take hold. In the place …
SiWC 2009
Well, Surrey’s over for another year, and thanks to a husband kind enough to turn off my alarm this morning and handle the getting-child-to-school routine alone, I’m not quite as …
Craft is craft is… life?
My husband’s on his way back from NYC tonight following five intense days in a Jay Maisel photography workshop. He’s feeling that strange combination of exhaustion and exhilaration, sadness and …