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…
Creativity evolves; by definition it can’t be stationary. As part of an overhaul of this entire site I reviewed blog posts from the very beginning….
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…
Back in the fifties my brother used to jive dance with me in our living room. In the sixties, my sister taught me how to…
There is a profound difference between the boredom that arises from being unoccupied and the stillness that accompanies a good daydream. In this era of…
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…
This post is one of my favourites. It is a re-cycle, with edits, from a post I wrote ten years ago; In her 2011 autobiography,…
“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…
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…
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…