I‘m back to my work today after a year of maternity leave. My job can be a bit unglamorous at times (often dealing with water mains and sanitary pump stations…yup, that shit’s gotta go somewhere…), but I like the challenge and it pays the bills, so I can’t complain. I’m actually pretty excited to get …
Right now, I have a dream. It involves a nice office where I can write without interruption; where my train of thought can be picked up instead of being thrown into the abyss of “What a Great Idea, Now If Only I could Remember It”. I mean, I love my children so, so much, but …
True story: when I was 13 years old, and just newly arrived in Canada, my dentist was horrified that I had half a tooth stuck in my gums from a failed extraction all these years. He was even more horrified when, later, as they were doing work on my teeth, I did not utter a …
Occasionally, I’ll write something and then leave the project behind, never to be touched again. Attention span of a gnat, this one; heck, one time, I think I wore two different types of shoes at the same time. STORY FOR ANOTHER DAY. Anyway, this was a story with concepts that later fused into another novel, …
We took a trip this weekend to an area south of D’Arcy, BC. It took us about four hours of hiking to reach this lake in a little basin. We always hike painfully slow, since we have children and dogs tagging along with us in any given combination and poop stops, yelling, line tangling, and …
