Instead of staying focused on writing my mother’s memoir, I’ve been distracted by the plight of the tomato. This may seem odd, when there’s so much going on in the…
Distracted By The Fall of the Tomato
Words To Live By – Jack Layton
I woke up way too early this morning. Jack Layton‘s state funeral was on my mind. Yesterday, I witnessed an outpouring of love for a man who`s touched so many…
Life Doesn’t Always Give You Cherries
As a freelance writer, my days are my own and yet there are forces that pull on me and interrupt the flow of work. Many are welcome interruptions- family, friends,…
Taking A Break To De-clutter The Mind
Since I’ve been up to my eyeballs trying to figure out the next steps in my writing life —and getting confused as to which direction to take—I took a break…
A Whole Empire Walking
Since I was old enough to comprehend, my mother has bent my ear with stories of how awful it was in the old country, before she immigrated to Canada when…
Partying With The Deceased At Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Who knew when my husband and I set out on our trip to Los Angeles, we’d be partying with the deceased. Our mission was to drop off our fifteen year…
Cipher at Tulsa International Film Festival
CIPHER, a short film my grandson, Michael Stevantoni, directed, shot and edited has just been selected for the Tulsa International Film Festival Sept. 22-25, 2011. As a writer with aspirations…
Scrapping The Prologue
While travelling down to L.A., I fussed about my novel, A CALL FROM THE DEEP, which I’m hoping to get published in the near future. It’s completed but it has this…
Blogging and Social Media
Stumbling upon, Kristen Lamb\’s blog , I feel as if I’ve been given a wake-up call. Kristen Lamb has written several books on the subject of using social media to raise…
Reading, Writing and Webinars
Much as I loved reading Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, which I posted about previously, I’ve been delighted to dig into something completely different – No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod ,…