Fourscore
CELEBRATIONS | Today, my Dad turns 80. He made it. There have been many times over the past twenty years when I was sure he wouldn’t, but here we are, against all odds. I texted him as much ...
Poetry weekend no. 23
LAST MINUTE ALERT | Okay, so I’ve been moved to the final reading slot on the Saturday evening of UNB’s Poetry Weekend. I was supposed to be reading in an afternoon slot. It’s a ...
Family superhighway
STORYTELLING | This week, the whole WIBA announcement thing got me dicombobulated and off-track, so I completely forgot to post about the storytelling show I participated in at the Charlotte ...
Landmarks is a WIBA Finalist
FINALIST ANNOUNCEMENT | While I have hesitated to post about this here (it felt premature), it seems now is finally the time to tell you that I have just been announced as a finalist for a ...
Friends and family
LIVE & IN-PERSON | I can’t believe it’s been nearly four months since my first storytelling show happened at the Charlotte Streets Arts Centre here in Fredericton. But it has! If ...
Yours truly is beet red
CRINGE REPORT | A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a podcast appearance for Beet Red and the episode dropped today. It is titled “When they tell me to eat sh*t, I don’t nibble!” ...
The two Jordans
SHOUTOUT | Today I am just sharing a wee event on behalf of a friend. Jordan Trethewey (which by the way, is pronounced Treth-ew-ee not Treth-away, which is how I pronounced it for well over a ...
Local lines
TONIGHT | I have been remiss in sharing this, as I have with updating this site in general. (What else is new? You all know I’m much better about updating IG. So just go follow me there are ...
Helgatha
STORYTELLING | Once upon a time, more than a decade ago now, I had a fight with my husband. And I ran off to a hotel in downtown Toronto to deal with my feelings, because I was right and correct ...
Stories from home
HELLO | It is sincerely disturbing to be typing here, directly witnessing exactly how long it’s been since I updated this site. A lot has changed since my last post (which was evidently ...
Smile less
HONOURABLY MENTIONED | I stopped submitting creative work approximately twenty years ago. The why is easy to remember, hard to remember, and boring to talk about. Why does anyone do anything in ...
Poetry weekend no. 22
NERVES ABOUND | My new friend Jordan Trethewey (someone I met only about a year ago, by chance, here in Fredericton) has been campaigning to get me more involved — involved in the city of ...