Finally! The diaries are available! Bias aside, this is a sweet and engaging read. My editor said it best, “This unmitigated view into a young…
My long-time friend and favourite resource, the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines overhaul as, “to take to pieces in order to examine and repair if necessary.”…
If there is one lesson I have found useful from my Mother’s diaries it would be her annual habit of assessing the previous year and…
I am reading the proof copy of my mother’s diaries. It’s a single edition, printed for the sole purpose of editing. This is my chance…
I have submitted my application to the WriteorFlight reality show in Peru. One of the requirements of the application process was to record a one-minute…
There is a new reality show on the horizon. It’s like a bake off, but instead, it’s a write-off. Really? Who wants to watch writers…
2025 will be the year I finally see my mother’s diaries published. The following excerpt is one of my favourites, from Sunday January 3, 1937,…
I re-read one of the first short stories I wrote and I could barely get through it. There was so much I wanted to edit…
“Draw what you like and hope others like it too”. Charles Schulz Substitute “create” for “draw” and that advice is suitable for any medium. As…
Is the “F-Bomb” still a bomb? I was 10 years old before I ever heard it and it was considered the baddest of the bad…