(Photo by trustynick via creative commons/flickr and storycorps.)
Sometimes, when I think about my years in Chicago, I have bittersweet memories…but when I think of Studs Terkel and the life he lived, and the way he was Chicago, I can’t help but feel [...]
The title of one of my favourite Sondheim songs (from Sunday in the Park with George) seems fitting for this post. The days are rolling forward, and we’re getting closer to the premiere of Jerome: The Historical Spectacle. It’s been an incredible gift to be able to participate in the [...]
read on... →As a youngest child, I was a notorious brat. These days, I like to think of myself as a low – maintenance kind of person. I’m not allergic to much of anything, and aside from my hatred of mayonnaise, my appetite is easy to please. (I’m sorry, but mayo is NOT a substitute for sour [...]
read on... →I just love it when I can brag about my friends…
Congratulations to Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company for their recent wins at this year’s Merritt Awards!!!
They scooped up outstanding supporting actress, outstanding costume design, and outstanding production for their amazing work on The Odyssey.
Also, my pals at Zuppa [...]
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Collage work really helps to stretch my creative muscles when I’m working with new ideas in my writing. This first piece – Miss Understood, became my contribution to the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts “Secret postcard” fund raiser this past autumn. It has since found a new home, [...]
Just back from a short trip to Toronto where I picked up this gorgeous Evergreen Award from the Ontario Library Association (in the middle of a howling snowstorm, I might add…)
We maritime mommies shrug off such weather with a hair-toss and a giggle, (especially when we’ve got lots [...]
read on... →As with my novel-in-progress (The Virgin Cure), I’ll be occasionally sharing notes from Jerome, The Historical Spectacle, my play-in-progress. (If you’re wondering about the origins of the project, please see my original blog entry about Jerome and my collaboration with Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Co.)
Searching for Jerome
Jerome [...]
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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
