Just before we left on a holiday to Newfoundland, a routine mammogram led to more tests and a large question mark. Did I or didn’t I have breast cancer?
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I'm a writer, speaker, reader, teacher, pioneer, and visionary.
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I have a lot of interests and my blogs are kind of random.
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I write, edit, and publish books and stories in a variety of genres.
"We all matter or none of us do."
- Patrick Skinner
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"No person* is an island entire of itself: every person is a piece of the continent, a part of the main... Any person's death diminishes me, because I am involved in humankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for you.*" (*"man" ^"thee")
- John Donne
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At one time, N. J. Lindquist wanted nothing more than to be a newspaper "life" columnist. Here are 21 columns she wrote for the Markham Economist & Sun.
Two coming-of-age Christian short stories. The first features an inner city student who questions his life after meeting a new, very unusual student.
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"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
- Madeleine L'Engle
My Latest Posts
September 2, 2025
On August 16, 2018, I walked down to our local hospital for a routine mammogram. That was the beginning of seven long years of treatment, other health issues, extreme fatigue, and very little brain.
...August 13, 2025
Many people remember Martin Smith for his contribution to Canadian Gospel music and for his plays and work in the theatre. But few people know how instrumental he was in promoting Canadian writers who are Christian in Canada.
...January 27, 2025
A few years ago I read a book by American author and journalist Mary Holt Reinhart, who not only wrote great mystery novels but was a war correspondent on the front lines during World War I.She made it very clear, in several novels as well as in her journalism, that many people in the US, …
January 4, 2024
An adopted child, I trusted God to look after me. Then my son asked me to find my “real” parents. Was I willing to open that door?
...June 26, 2023
My brain hasn’t been up to writing, so over the last few months I’ve used the energy I had to buy or design new covers for all my books.
...November 28, 2022
It’s been 30 years since my dad’s death. As his only child, I got to watch first-hand. Because I’m a writer, I wrote about it.
...November 18, 2022
After a year of side effects from cancer, my next three years included changes at home, Covid, Zoledonic acid, a heart problem, and other issues.
...November 16, 2022
In the fall of 2018, breast cancer took over my life. Since then, I’ve been very quiet, and I thought it was time for an update.
...November 16, 2022
Since I got breast cancer and then Covid arrived, Les and I have watched a lot of series TV mysteries and some comedies. Here are a few.
...October 28, 2022
June was four when she was taken from her family and made an orphan by the Child Welfare System in Canada. This is her poignant story.
...October 18, 2022
I had read many lists of possible side effects, so I was prepared mentally. But nothing totally prepares you for the actual side effects. Especially hair loss.
...October 13, 2022
Ray Wiseman spent years discovering that, at heart, he was a writer. This picture of Ray and his wife Anna was taken at the 2005 Write! Canada Conference.
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