Daily Writing Prompt – 6 Mar 18: Write a scene that involves a bear, a windmill, and a piece of beach glass. The elders had gathered our families around the fire to listen to tonight’s story. We sat, one circle of children inside another circle of adults, to stay warm. Winter’s fierce Wind still…
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True Love
Daily Writing Prompt 2.20: Write about the first time you met your significant other (300 words). They say that true love hits you like a bolt of lightening out of nowhere when you least expect it. It’s magical. It transcends logic, time, and perhaps space. It’s that fleeting one instant in nine hundred sextillion others…
University of Toronto Creative Writing 1
Whoop! I have finally started my Creative Writing program at the University of Toronto. Originally, I signed up for the summer workshop, but the dates conflicted with my chemo treatments. I deferred until the winter semester and changed the course location to on-line vs the downtown campus. For homework, I have lots of reading and…
Happy 20th Birthday!
Twenty years ago, while the Groundhog was getting ready to see his shadow on a sunny Monday morning, I was getting ready to go to the hospital to have a baby. My snuggly unborn baby boy was quite cozy with his bum tucked up under my ribs while I munched on chocolate chip cookies. He…
The New(er) Firefox
Change never comes easily. I was befuddled when Mozilla changed their second tab. They used to list my frequented pages. Then they made those pages links fewer and smaller. And added “Recommended by Pocket” articles. And lots of the last pages I went to. Do I really want to know that?? Really?! I googled how…
55 of the Best Questions
The 55 Best Questions To Ask To Get To Know Someone Mild: Any upcoming travel plans? Montréal, Québec! What brought you here? To Toronto? Love, school and work … in that order. He and I broke up six months after I moved here, but I stayed for school and work. ‘Tis home now … How…
Sunday Daydreams
Today was a perfect day to luxuriate in bed, my head in the clouds. I partied too hardy late Friday and into the wee hours of Saturday with dozens and dozens of my favourite people to celebrate at my Goodbye Cancer! party. The live band Juggernaut was on fire and the crowd was appreciative. We…
School Lunches
During my early formative years in elementary, we lived right next door to my school, which meant I went home for lunch. I grew up in a quiet, english speaking suburb on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec. You could only stay at school for lunch if you lived farther away or had no one…
15 Totally Random Things About Me
I picked this idea up off another blog, and thought it would be a good entry for today. I was writing another swan dive slash tear jerker of a post and decided I needed to lighten up. So here it is … Fifteen Totally Random Things that people don’t know about me. I’d really love…
Authentic Voice
I have been asked … and my closest friends have been asked … about why I blog. Why I write with such candor. Except it’s not always called candor. Shock value. Attention whore. Outrageous behaviour. Brutal honesty. Why does she blog that? An art gallery. Best thing I have read in ten years. She gave…
Batman was a Six-Year-Old Girl
God, I wish there was a photo of 6-year-old me in my Batman costume. I *LOVED* Batman – and dressing up – as a child. Born in the last hour of 1965, I spent my early life as a little girl on my Dad’s knee watching Batman and Star Trek and the Carol Burnett show. …
Telling my story
This is going to be one of those braindumps that bleed out my fingers before I can really think it through, so hang in there! Many years ago at the start of my career, I took Project Management classes. On the first day of our Intro class, the teacher told us that since we were…
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