January 7, 2016. We're a week into the 'new' year and I've yet to map out my goal-for-the-year chart...or have that major long-winded write in my journal to re-set my energy and focus... The sun is out, I can feel the sun shining. And yet, there's a heaviness on my chest. Today is a cry… Continue reading Cry Day(s)
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
Holiday Happiness!
It's been quite a wonderful holiday thus far! We are busy, busy at the Shields' house, but happy and full - inside and out. Santa came with a wildly generous heart...so Christmas morning was a rustle with paper tearing and loud yelps of joy. The one thing that Jett wished for was a Lego Millennium… Continue reading Holiday Happiness!
Runner-Up Award from TOPS!
Squeeee! My poem 'Say AWE' has won a Runner-Up Award in The Ontario Poetry Society's 'Ultra-Short Poetry' competition! What a wonderful gift! Thank you TOPS family and judge Debbie Okun Hill! Congratulations to all the other poets who will be in the anthology!
