According to the Canadian groundhogs, Spring is coming soon. According to the American groundhogs, winter is still holding on tight. They’re both wrong, because according to the insane weather going on outside my window, Spring just arrived. West coast… more »

This isn’t one of my lighthearted blurbs. If you’re looking for upbeat, I promise to revert back to normal next week… you may just want to skip reading this one. /grumpy soapbox moment begins Four years and a bit years ago my little brother went to… more »

Today was Valentines Day, or as more than one person referred to it in my hearing, “Singles Awareness day.” I prefer to call it “the day before all the chocolate goes on sale” myself, but that’s a personal choice. It’s a funny thing, but somewhere a… more »

Yes, once again I am about to face my psychosomatic allergy to packing tape, cardboard and dust. Thankfully this time it’s not my residence that’s changing, its my workplace, which means no only is all this going on someone else’s tab, but instead of lea… more »

Inspiration is a wonderful thing, especially to an artist. It’s the reason every painting doesn’t depict the same vase of flowers or gathering of canines playing cards. It’s the moment when the metaphorical lights go on and the liquid flow of random thou… more »

As a kid my mother always was after me to eat my vegetables, a mission that I have had only moderate success with for most of my life. So this weekend I did something I rarely do, I tried something faddish from Hollywood. Green Smoothies. Having made th… more »

Last night I finished my third novel. Oh, it still needs to go to my trusted proof readers and have the typos and apostrophe catastrophes fixed, but it is, for all intents and purposes, a completed work. And that means I have down time.Since I starte… more »

I live in the great white north, where polar bears reportedly roam the city streets and we are all supposed to commute by dogsled alongside the caribou herds. While the truth may be slightly more mundane and a great deal less dangerous, most of the… more »

The more I read in general and read about writing in particular, the more I’ve learned I have yet to learn. It’s all a bit boggling at times. One of the things I have learned is that there are rules to writing. (see my blog entry on headhopping for a… more »

Not for the time spent with family, or the food, or the parties. No, I love this time of year because of the quiet. I drove into work on Friday and there was not another car on the road for most of the drive. The phones did not ring off the hook, the… more »