Previously I believed I could not write fiction. It’s not important why I thought so, just note that I went from “I can’t,” to “here’s…
While Europe’s eye is fix’d on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks of State must each produce his plan,And even…
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….
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…
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….
New York was originally settled by the Dutch, who resented the English moving in, who resented the Irish moving in, who resented the Italians, and…
One of the projects I’m currently working on is to publish my Mother’s diaries. Throughout her high school years in the 1930’s, my Mother recorded…