With SO much to tell, it’ll take me a month to really talk about the experience! I was sick as a dog on the flight over! Bronchitis, coughing, inhaler, you name it. I tried to get as much rest as I could but had a load of things to do before leaving, including baking about […]

The countdown is on for my trip to Singapore. I leave early on Tuesday and one thing kind of concerns me. This always happens when I’m invited to a big event overseas. It’s like an extra potent case of stage fright. Double or triple anything I get when going to a local school. It’s because […]

Today I went to a school about half an hour outside Toronto and presented ESL to Author to a group of grades six, seven and eights. ESL stands for English as a Second Language. Basically I talked about how I was an ESL student when I first arrived in Canada. For me to become an […]

is that they’ll just be polite and say they liked your work. And feedback is crucial. It’s because you can get too close to your story and not see whether or not what you’re trying to say is really getting through to others. I feel like I’m writing a tutorial for goodness sakes! And the […]

One of my friends has disagreed with my theory on confident people. It was bound to happen. I even said I wasn’t sure my theory had any merit. She said:  “…your theory was very interesting, though I don’t think it’s completely true. I know many people who are very confident but are also mean to others. […]

I had an interesting exchange on the internet the other day, on that politics forum that I frequent. Basically this elderly man from Winnipeg suggested that Muslim women wear hijab basically to stand out. To distinguish themselves, and if all the women in Canada started wearing the hijab, then we would instead go bare-headed. I’m […]

I’ve been talking to a friend about confidence, and asking myself what really constitutes it. I think true confidence, as opposed to bravado, is linked to sincerity. It comes through like a tone in all your dealings. It can’t be faked, and in fact I think trying to fake confidence is a sure way of […]

is the Muslim man’s beer”. My son said this as we sat down to watch a movie together. And the funny thing was I’d thought the same thing a few days earlier. With all the shows of Intervention I’d seen, with so many times the mother going to the cupboard and pouring gin in her […]

I’ve still been going downtown everyday to work and get back by 6 pm. Tonight I met my hubby at a restaurant, it was one of those popular Chinese buffet restaurants with plenty of good food. While I was picking out some sushi, a lady came up to me, very hesitantly, told me she hated […]

Today I was expecting to hear about one of the awards that Wanting Mor was up for, specifically the IODE award, but instead I got some other good news. The Italian version of Wanting Mor, has just gone into its second printing, after being out less than six months! So, let’s see, that means this […]