Holly Carr ‘in concert’ with Scott Macmillan’s Big Band
I’m happy to announce that my gal-pal, Holly Carr is on the road with Stuart McLean and the entire Vinyl Cafe crew. They are currently making their way across Canada for Stuart’s annual Christmas concert tour. As always, the [...]
read on... →My DH and I have been making the web site for The Birth House all spiffy for February’s launch. One feature I’ve dreamed of having there is an interactive scrapbook where readers can click on an image and learn more about the inspiration behind the novel.
Some things I’ve included already are: The Conception of [...]
I don’t often review books at Incidental Pieces or even make mention of the books I’ve been reading. (Probably because I spend much of my time with my nose stuck in odd, out-of-print books from the 19th century.)But with the onset of the holiday season, I thought I’d spread some good cheer and tell you [...]
read on... →There’s a brilliant line in Bruce Cockburn’s song “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” that goes:
Got to kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight…
Sometimes that’s exactly what it takes to bring about change, especially for the things that are the most important in our lives.
I spent last Thursday pacing back and [...]
read on... →Ah ‘blurbs’…those nifty endorsements you see on the back cover of books and one of the rites of passage for a first time author. As a newcomer (essentially a publishing nobody), I was pretty nervous about the whole process of getting quotes for my novel. I talked things over with my editor, we came up [...]
read on... →Writer, painter, birdwatcher, and bog walker, Brenda Schmidt has written a thought provoking article for Book Ninja called:
Causing a Scene.
Poet Schmidt, a veteran of the frosty north country of Saskatchewan and long-time Bookninja discussant, looks deep into her motivations for living so far out of a literary “scene” and wonders [...]
read on... →Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all
- Emily Dickinson
Today, children all across Canada and the world will run. They will run to honour the life and wishes of Terry Fox.
It’s been 25 years since that amazing [...]
read on... →When I first moved to Nova Scotia from Chicago (wow, it’s been six years…) I often longed for familiar voices. For some reason that kind of lonliness would hit first thing in the morning, at an hour (because of the time zone differences) that was too early to call friends and family back home. Then [...]
read on... →Last week I had to sit down and write the acknowledgements for The Birth House. It was a humbling and emotional experience. (I walked around for two days in a state of perpetual gratitute before I could even put pen to paper.)Then I made a list…the names of all the people who had helped, cheered, [...]
read on... →
I’m posting a few links to go along with my recent post, “what a waste!”
All around good-guy, tech expert and podcaster, Tod Maffin has all kinds of nifty lock-out information, including a list of blogs by locked out CBC workers.
Tod Maffin’s blog
i love [...]
When I was a child I loved finding things…a jar of my grandmother's old buttons, a cigar box filled with boy scout badges and river stones, a flouncy party dress pushed to the back of my mother's closet - circa 1955. With every relic I discovered, there came a story. Real or imagined, the tales that surrounded each object were magic, making the 'thing' more immediate, something more than it was before I'd found it.
Fact or fiction, fantastic, joyful or sad, stories make us more than we were before we found them. Welcome to my shoebox of buttons, sealing wax and scribblings.
- posted on 16/05/2012 23:03:49
