Pause for a Poem: On the Beach with My Daughter
We are collectors on the beach. We walk with our heads bowed to small stones and debris in step our […]
Category: Writing
Daphne du Maurier: Magic & the Shaping of a Writer
In the summer of 1976, by childhood’s magic train, I went from reading L.M. Montgomery’s Anne books to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. An old red copy at the cottage called me to pick it up, and when I opened it, the spell took hold…
Pause for a Poem: Nymph
Nymph You taught me swimming all those summers. Began by letting me slide off your back into the murk. Stumbled […]
Trust Your Inner Child to Lead You: A Poem on Going Back to Go Forward
I was reminded of this poem while planning my next post. It’s on navigating your personal history stories along the path to living a braver and more authentic and fulfilling experience. Trust your inner child to lead you, and in doing so, you will discover a vital way forward…
On Fiction, Dream Building and Meeting a Role Model
Sandra Gulland certainly touched both the writer and the transformation coach in me. At the 2019 San Miguel Writers’ Conference, […]
Dream Your Dream, Sing Your Song
Inside each one of us is an inner child who knows well why we are here and what we are […]
On New Beginnings
My thoughts, and a quoted passage that I love, for the start of a brand new year. Two keys for […]
The Stranger at the Door
In December of 1938, a young woman returned home from the Plummer Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, gripping her […]
On The Shining Fragments Book Launch
It is a myth that a novelist works entirely alone. While it is true that in visioning and authoring a […]