Dear Internet,
It’s not you, it’s me.
I’ve been online since 1993. It started with Gopher, The English Server, and a little cyber hole-in-the-wall called D-Con. I loved that geeky, text-only frontier and the sense of freedom that came along with it. It was filled with [...]
read on... →Whew…what a crazy couple of days it’s been. I’m still not quite caught up on sleep yet, but I thought I’d post a little behind the scenes slide show of the Canada Reads 2011 launch in Toronto. I’m still pinching myself over the fact that The Birth House was chosen by Debbie Travis [...]
read on... →The news came at 7:15 am – Gaspereau Press co-owner Andrew Steeves announced to Don Connolly on CBC Nova Scotia’s Information Morning that a deal has been made to get more copies of the Sentimentalists on bookstore shelves. (You can read their official press release here.)
According to Steeves, plans for an alliance with [...]
read on... →This keepsake was begun by Will Rueter at The Aliquando Press, Dundas Ontario, and completed at the Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose, Kentville, Nova Scotia on 21 October 2006. The wood engraving was inspired by a watercolour by David Milne. The typefaces are ATF Baskerville Roman and Antique Tuscan, printed [...]
read on... →This letter was originally sent to the Occasional Knitters Society facebook group, Friday November 5, 2010.
Hello from my little house by the Bay!
On this rainy, blustery November day, I thought I’d send you a long overdue note. Settled in the nook [...]
read on... →Some images from a beautiful September 11 ceremony I attended in NYC in 2008…
NYC Lantern Ceremony September 11, 2008 on PhotoPeach
and The Charter for Compassion.
read on... →For the past two weeks I’ve been teaching the 2010 Teen Writing Academy at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. (You can check out a sampling of their adventures at their newly launched blog, The Creeklings.)
In the meantime, here’s a wee slideshow of photos I took on our field trip to [...]
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We’ve had a long, steady rain here today…good for the garden and good for writing.
Tending a garden has helped me learn a lot about myself. In the past few years I’ve found that both gardening and novel writing require many of the [...]
read on... →Last night, for the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, the Oscar for Best Director was handed to a woman. Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for her outstanding work on The Hurt Locker.
In strangely-related news…
Jeremy Renner (nominated for Best Actor for his leading role in The Hurt Locker) [...]
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
