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Award Nominations

Unfortunately, the way it works is that when there are urgent things needing doing for The Word Guild, my own writing gets sadly neglected – including this site. I've actually been working like mad on Write! Canada and on starting a new site for The Word Guild Awards. But I was reminded last night that

Award Nominations

A Fun Memory from an Early God Uses Ink Conference (Before It Was Called Write! Canada)

In the fall of 1995, when Audrey Dorsch resigned as the editor of Faith Today and director of the God Uses Ink Conference, I was part of the planning committee. Even though Faith Today was short-staffed and assistant editor Marianne Meed Ward knew she couldn’t handle the workload of both putting out the magazine and

A Fun Memory from an Early God Uses Ink Conference (Before It Was Called Write! Canada)

Time for a Change

Today is my husband’s last day with IBM. He just left to turn in his laptop. I’m sure it must be a strange feeling. In actual fact, he hasn’t worked in an office for over 15 years. He simply walked to a room in our house, turned on his computer, picked up his phone, and dialed

Time for a Change

Thank You, Johnny Reid

At the end of the year, it’s good to look back and think about the people who have helped you along the way in the past 12 months, or longer. When I was quite young I memorized a poem about a self-made man who was only self-made in his own mind. The truth was he’d

Thank You, Johnny Reid

Another edit

Okay, I have taken Trevel's suggestion and dropped the "and Her Friends" and the Part 1 bit.Trevel is one of my primary editors and is usually right. :) New cover.

Another edit

My Perfect Morning

I’m sitting here drinking lapsang souchong tea (the result of reading a book by Ron and Janet Benrey entitled Dead as a Scone, which is set in a tea museum in England (one of my all-time favorite cozy mysteries!). I actually bought the tea thinking my husband would like it (he likes smoked meat and

My Perfect Morning

The Magic of Narnia

“I would read other books, of course,” wrote the novelist Neil Gaiman, “but in my heart I knew that I read them only because there wasn’t an infinite number of Narnia books.” My son sent me that quotation the other day. Partly because he knows I’m a big fan of the Narnia books, too, and

The Magic of Narnia

What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

I was at the mall today (more about that later). Shortly after I went into one highish end (for our mall) women’s clothing stores, the alarm went off and the next thing I knew, a salesclerk was yelling at an older lady who apparently had put on a jacket and then walked out of the

What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Do the Clothes You Wear Really Affect How You Feel?

When people asked me what I wore to write, I used to have an easy answer: whatever I have on. Jeans, cut-offs, a T-shirt, possibly pyjamas and a housecoat. Whatever. I mean, who’s going to see me, right? I’m sitting alone at a computer desk in my house. A New York publisher is unlikely to

Do the Clothes You Wear Really Affect How You Feel?

Boundaries

My dog and I were walking down the sidewalk as usual, her out in front leading the way, me working a little bit to keep up. Except for occasional times when she decided she just had to stop and sniff a fragrant tree, check out a suspicious walkway, or observe a patch of interesting grass,

Boundaries

Some of my favorite CDs

I just ordered Buddy Jewell's latest CD, which I've heard is great, and that got me going through my CDs to pick out my favorites. Since I've been a huge fan of country music since I was about 5, I started there. Most of these aren't major ones where they had all the bells and

Some of my favorite CDs

Good news! My bone density has improved

In 2005, I had a bone density test. and learned that I was bordering on osteoporosis. I had another one last year; it was worse; I now had osteoporosis. Very frustrating. I'm way too young for this! So, I made a concerted effort to do what I could to keep my bones from getting any

Good news! My bone density has improved

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