I admit it. I am completely lost – without my characters that is. For the past few days I’ve been proof reading and copy-editing the manuscript for Dawning of a New Garden before sending it back to my publisher. Even…
Driven to Worry
One of the hardest aspects of being a parent is not allowing yourself to be lulled into a sense of blissful complacency when all is going along as it should. While it’s fine to be thankful that your children are…
The Best Laid Plans…
So often we hear about how the plans people make easily get waylaid or sideswiped by some unforeseen event. Either an unexpected illness, accident, bad weather or even a minor misadventure can thwart our best laid plans. After years of…
Time Honoured Traditions
This is my first Christmas without the physical presence of my mother. Although she died ten months ago, I feel her spiritual essence around me. Now, more so than at any other time in the past few months, my daughter…
It’s all About Passion
What’s your passion? Mine is cooking. I am not a trained chef. The closest to a cooking class I have ever come to is watching YouTube videos on my tablet as I hold it at eye level so I can…
Model Citizen
On Saturday I was a model for a day. Seriously, who would have thought? Actually I did. It was a planned event sponsored by the Coalition of Persons with Disability of Newfoundland and Labrador (CODNL) and the Overcast newspaper. The…
Santa, The Great Equalizer?
When my children were old enough to understand the concept of Santa as he relates to Christmas, I had a specific take on the situation. Rather than giving into the societal pressure of buying the hottest, trendiest toys on the…
Friday Night Fundamentals
When I was a teenager, I joined an evangelical youth group because I had a few friends who were in it. Every Friday night, we’d meet at the church hall and the pastor and his wife would organize an outing…
The Proof is in the Plum Pudding
It took three tries and finally I think I got it right – making a plum pudding that is. For decades I saw my mother making plum puddings for the Christmas season. For decades I paid no attention to the process…
Peace and Freedom
It has been discussed in churches, coffee shops and every other place people gather to vent their fear and outrage; the latest hate-fueled tragedy that has once again rocked the world from its unsteady moorings. It will be written about…