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.
...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.
...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, …
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?
...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.
...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.
...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.
...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.
...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.
...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.
...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.
...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.
...I’d had one injection of zoledronic acid and was due for another. But while I was at the hospital to see my oncologist before having the injection, my heart took centre stage and I was off to Emergency.
...Over the past two years, I’ve read a lot of books. I felt the need to share some of the nonfiction books I thought most worth reading.
...I now know why they talk about the problems some parents have to get their adult kids to leave the “nest.” Getting baby birds out of their nest is a lot of work!
...My grandfathers died before I was born, Granny Shaw was quite elderly, and I rarely saw Granny MacDonald, but I had Aunt Margaret and Uncle Albert.
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