28Jul
07Jul
Five summertime ways to combine work and play
When the thermometer soars, my mind drifts on the sun-kissed breeze and my productivity takes a belly flop. My solution: multitasking. I don’t mean laptop-on-the-beach kind of multitasking … too much glare and sand in expensive parts for me. I mean the get-out-there-and-experience-summer-while-making-some-business-connections kind of...
05Jan
Resolutions We Can Keep
It’s fresh start time, but I have the attention span of a flea and am by necessity, cheap. Can I commit to anything workable? Here are my thoughts. As I stared at the piles in my office it occurred to me that I have spent...
18Dec
Five things my father’s life teaches me about writing
I am my father’s daughter, a fact that both enriches and terrifies me. This will, however, make me a better writer. Here’s how. First, though, a bit about my dad. He wasn’t a writer, he was an electrician by trade, both of us in the...
06Jul
The Pen is Mightier Than the Drumstick, said I
Then I spent a week at the Ontario School of Piping, where my name tag distinctly said DRUMMER. Not mother, not writer, but DRUMMER. To be honest, I started drumming with our pipe band a few years ago to hang with my children. I ended...
28Apr
A novelist, not a poet? Think again
I never considered myself to be a poet, but a chance encounter wth a poem I scribbled years ago revealed a future that a decade later is now my present. Poetry was the medium I needed at that moment to preserve something that would be...
10Apr
What Martin Short and I have in common
Well, not a lot. I adore him. He has never even heard of me. But there are three things we share … First, the not-a-lot part. Martin Short is rich, famous, and funny. I pay for coffee with change scoured from the couch, have people...
06Feb
To Boldly Go: 5 lessons on book promotion
My love of Star Trek is not pure escape any more. It has taught me about the great unknown that is book marketing. For example: 1. Look big, especially if you’re small Think of wee Clint Howard’s character in The Corbomite Manoeuvre. For those of...
05Feb
To boldly go into book promotion: 5 valuable lessons
From our collection… My love of Star Trek is not pure escape any more. It has taught me about the great unknown that is book marketing. For example: 1. Look big, especially if you’re small Think of wee Clint Howard’s character in The Corbomite Manoeuvre....
23Jan