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Comma-itis and Habits of Speech

Comma-itis and Habits of Speech

11/02/2024
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Creativity

My writing style has an affliction I refer to as comma-itis. Around and through my sentences and paragraphs are an abundance of commas. I tend…

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Short Story Resistance

Short Story Resistance

22/10/2023
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Creativity, Writing

On impulse one evening I googled ‘short story contests Canada’. And guess what? The CBC short story contest is under way! The deadline for submissions…

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Summertime Creations

Summertime Creations

11/06/2023
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Living Well

Summertime, and the living is easy. It is time to relax — vacations, sunshine, excursions, swimming, picnics… what’s not to love? If summer is your…

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Lightfoot’s Power

Lightfoot’s Power

07/05/2023
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Opinion

I’ve never been caught out on Lake Superior when the gales of November came early but I think I understand the feeling of resigned doom…

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Creating for Free

Creating for Free

12/06/2022
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Creativity, Writing

Can you, (‘should’ you?), create for free? Of course you ‘should’. Create anyway.  I created ten chapters of a comic series, Contentment is for Cows….

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Add a Little Colour

Add a Little Colour

08/11/2020
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Living Well

There is a whole genre of psychology dedicated to the effect colour has on us. I feel like I could offer myself up as living…

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Inventions

Inventions

26/08/2018
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Opinion

There is an old saying that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Perhaps that is true in some situations, as in the movie Apollo 13…

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Being Your Own Masterpiece

Being Your Own Masterpiece

22/07/2018
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Living Well

Art is wonderful, no?  Everyone appreciates some form of art, whether they are aware of it as art or not.  Everything, from a clever graphic…

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In Praise of Messy Housekeepers

In Praise of Messy Housekeepers

01/04/2018
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Bernice's Diaries, Creativity

My family members who read this will recognize the verse posted here.  It hung in our kitchen for years, and my Mother would challenge anyone…

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Light Bulb Moments

Light Bulb Moments

14/01/2018
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Creativity, Writing

If you are like most people, you get ‘stuck’ sometimes.  Being stuck can apply to life in general, i.e., feeling stuck and uninspired in your…

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