Both positive and negative is like honey and bitter medicine. Good for you. I did three presentations at a school today and it was so nice to get feedback! The first presentation of the day was my Work in Progress presentation. It’s a presentation I developed to be a kind of on-going look at the projects I’m […]

I met a little seven year old girl named Bibi today, during my Picture the Story presentation, in which I presented Silly Chicken in which the chicken’s name is Bibi! Poor little girl, she looked worried. During the presentation I showed the kids previous drafts of the story, first where I called the chicken Sally, […]

There are only a few reality shows that I really like to watch. First there’s Mantracker, that one’s not odd. I mean who wouldn’t find the idea of a pair of ‘prey’ running through the bush, being chased by a cowboy (mounted on a horse) and his sidekick (also mounted on a horse), interesting? There’s different prey […]

And honestly I am. The revision is looking good, got the first feedback and there doesn’t seem much more than a bit of tweaking to do on it. I’m feeling better, even went to the gym (Curves) today and yesterday. The workout darn near clobbered me, but I got through it. Made a dent in the mountain […]

There was an interesting part of the interview with Shelagh Rogers that I keep thinking about. When she asked me about raising strong-minded daughters, even strong-willed daughters and how that’s what we want our daughters to be and we tend to admire women like that, and yet dealing with them can be frustrating. I have […]

Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you If all men count with you but none too much… This is the first part of the last stanza of Rudyard Kipling’s poem If, and it’s always puzzled me the most. I talk with a lot of […]

I hate listening to myself on radio or watching myself on T.V. It makes me feel so self-conscious. If I laugh too loud, or gesture too much… Radio is a bit better but not much and I’m always worried about saying something stupid! Or something I just shouldn’t. But Shelagh Rogers was such a sweet […]

I’ve been asking myself all day why I’m addicted to spider solitaire, and I think I may have found an answer. It goes back to something I never mentioned, because it’s rather pathetic. A very successful author I know (she won the Newbery for goodness sakes!) once confessed that she played the most difficult level of […]

Well I guess I must be getting more tech savvy because I did indeed figure out how to unhide my spider solitaire and freecell. And since I’d done my work, I was itching for something to do, and I did go in and ‘unhide’ them. Well, I was too embarrassed to blog about it, but […]

I know that’s a cliche, but really it’s true. Had some good news over the past few days. Wanting Mor was nominated for the 2010/2011 Hackmatack award–that’s a reader’s choice award (in Canada they’re commonly referred to as the tree awards because they’re often named after trees–hey we’re Canadian–we have a leaf on the flag!). The […]