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I feel it in my chest. A burning, bursting sort of feeling that makes me want to belt out the ‘all’ at the end of the ‘we could have it all…” line in Adele’s Rolling In the Deep song right alongside the British diva. Thankfully for my husband and son, I usually resist. However, […]
Read MoreSometimes I just feel sapped. Like I don’t even have enough creative energy left to describe the tiniest little thing, like a baby chipmunk’s eyelashes or those coin shaped batteries they use in singing cards. When that happens, I know its time to, as Julia Cameron describes in her book The Artist’s Way, fill the creative well. One […]
Read MoreMy childhood was set against jars of murky grey water, hard clumps of color on a white plastic plate, and stacks of picture frames. My dad has painted mountains for as long as I can remember. Now retired and in his sixties he is still going strong, churning out a new one every week. Some […]
Read MoreA couple summers ago I took a writing class with Susan Juby, author of the HILARIOUS teen fiction series, Alice I think. I have always admired Susan’s work and was very excited to have her teach me the trade for 5 whole days. However, as much as I enjoyed learning dialogue tricks and plot tightening […]
Read MoreThe smell of dark, roasted coffee and pumpkin raisin muffins wafts through the air. The screech of steam and rumble of grinding coffee tickle my ears. The polished table is smooth, though scratched with the word ‘acid rocket’ under my fingers. Maybe it the caffeine infused air from the barista stand, maybe its the creative buzz radiating off all the other lap-toppers huddled around tables just […]
Read MoreLast night was the longest night of my life. Well, maybe not my life but of the last week anyway, thanks to the dull-nail-hammering-into-my-skull-like-sensation also known as an ear infection. Thankfully today, all cavities in my cranial region feels as light and fluffy as rainbow colored cotton candy and Mickey mouse helium balloons and I […]
Read MoreAt fourteen years of age, Annaleise Carr became the youngest person to swim across the frigid and turbulent waters of Lake Ontario last august. She did it to raise money for children and families affected by cancer. It was a long and cold and dark journey with five foot waves and 10 – 15 knot wind that took her 27 […]
Read MoreThere is nothing that makes me want to churn out story magic than surrounding myself in a wall of freshly minted YA covers on a dark and rainy Vancouver night. Like the triple chocolate brownies and oat fudge bars displayed behind glass in the downstairs Starbucks, all those shiny images and flashy titles ignite my appetite to write. […]
Read MoreI filled a lot of scruffy looking notebooks like this one with observations and thoughts on life throughout my teenage years–such as this one from my second trip to Japan at 17. And yes, the pack-rat that I am I still have most of them. A few months ago I hauled them out of my storage unit […]
Read More“ So, when are you going to start your Phd?” That was the first thing people asked me after I finished my master’s of education degree several years ago–and I never knew quite how to answer them. On the one hand, it almost seemed inevitable that I should continue on the path I had started and work towards a […]
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