No one knows a couple like the couple knows the couple. It just isn’t possible for anyone on the outside to fully understand the nuances…
Every week I spend some time stressing over my choice of topics for this blog. I scratch through my running list of possible ideas, pick…
Contentment is for Cows, the Blog, is ten years old! When it was created, the comic strip was supposed to be the star of the…
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…
For the first time a graphic novel was included in the Canada Reads 2023 competition; Ducks, Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton….
I stumbled upon a journal I had started and abandoned in November of 2021. It was fascinating to read what I had been so concerned…
The writing course I signed up for is expensive, time consuming, and a challenge to my definition of story-telling. I have been second guessing why…
In movies, I could care less about a car chase scene or a lengthy fist fight, just give me a good story. I’m a sucker…
I have just finished reading Evelina, Or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World, by Fanny Burney, originally published in 1778. It…
With a jumble of feelings ranging from relief to chagrin to, “I’m gonna miss you,” I am signing off indefinitely from weekly creations of Contentment…