Yahoo! I'm over at the League of Canadian Poets blog today where my first column about being a writer and a parent is posted! I'm calling it: The Writer Parent - Dancing the Duality! #fancy Do check it out - as well as all the other inspiring and exciting posts being published on the blog!… Continue reading First Column Up on the League of Canadian Poet’s Blog!
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New Year – New Column! Thanks LCP!
'Tis a grand year for the League of Canadian Poets! It's turning 50! Many new and exciting things are happening this year, including the start of a new blog. I'm happy to announce that I will be writing a bi-monthly column on Parenting & Writing! I'm super happy about this as I feel I always have… Continue reading New Year – New Column! Thanks LCP!
Cry Day(s)
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)
The Roots of my Tongue – A Birthday Soliloquy
*I wrote this yesterday, May28, but couldn't post it due to internet connection issues.* Today is my birthday. On this day, it was a Sunday then, thirty-seven years ago, my mother, she was twenty-one then, was labouring me into this world. I was a small baby, long and skinny like a just-hatched bird, I am… Continue reading The Roots of my Tongue – A Birthday Soliloquy
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