What’s Up In My Studio
Inside My Studio This is what my creative work week looks like at a glance: A lot of behind the scenes work is going on at the moment. As many of you are aware, my first YA novel Queen of … Read More
Precious Time: How To Spend My Days On Earth
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Precious Time How we spend every moment on planet earth is important. Even hobbies take up much mental and physical energy/time in our lives. We only have days on this earth, ten decades if we’re really fortunate. How do I want … Read More
School For Self Esteem
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Photo retrieved from: http://www.boredpanda.com/magic-realism-paintings-rob-gonsalves/ School For Self Esteem—when a child practices being a school teacher, her/his self esteem is revealed in the report card comments. I showed my daughter Pippi a series of optical illusion painting by Canadian Artist, … Read More
Down the Fox Hole: Writing For A Living
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Down the Fox Hole: Writing For A Living I’ve fallen down a fox hole. I figure it’s a fox hole rather than a rabbit hole because one must be creative and alert down there, ready for anything. Lately I’ve lost … Read More
Say Something Cover Song by Tabby Cat (age 14)
Say Something Cover Song by Tabby Cat—Piano and Vocals httpv://youtu.be/n2-6mxYZv0Q?list=UURbJ6OzAYhYb91or-oMr1uw I begged Tabitha to record herself singing and playing the piano to Say Something the song by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera. It took her months to finally … Read More
Interesting Women In Literature
Literature has always managed to be true to women since novel reading first became a popular leisure pastime in the eighteenth century. True women characters began appearing frequently in literature by the nineteenth century, in works written by the Brontë … Read More
A Peek Inside My Studio: A Pug Named Pru
Books: Queens, Exotic Northern Lands and A Pug Named Pru I thought my readers might like to peek inside my writing/painting studio to see what I’m up to this month. The thing about being an author/artist is that it sometimes … Read More
Writing Is a Fickle Business
After two agonizing weeks of editing the first draft of my latest novel, Naked Under the Midnight Sun (working title), I am happy to announce that I have crossed through the muddy trenches and am finally in the sunshine stage … Read More
Throw Back Thursday: Witches Do Have More Fun!
Halloween is nearly upon us. I thought I’d share an old Halloween picture of myself (witch) and 2 of my sisters (youngest sis wasn’t born yet) on Halloween. I am 4 years old in this pic. I was a Canadian … Read More
Important Letter to David Bowie
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Bowie philia seems to be my genes. I have had an artist crush on the guy since I was a young teen and so do all of my daughters. I admit, his Let’s Dance album is one of my favourites. … Read More