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It’s about SlutWalk and the sexual oppression of women. It’s published on We Matter Media and it goes like this: Apparently women who like to have a lot of sex want to be able to be called sluts and call themselves sluts without it being an insult or put down. They want SlutWalk to be both […]
March 5, 2013
‘Hey, you know, I was reading about this girl in Albuquerque who made millions self-publishing her book. You should do that.’ ‘Oh yeah, where did you read about that?’ ‘In the paper.’ ‘The newspaper?’ ‘Well. Yeah.’ ‘You know what they write about in the newspaper?’ ‘Um…’ ‘News.’ ‘Yeah…’ ‘You know what the definition of “news” […]
February 25, 2013
The Book of Genesis is the first book of all Christian Bibles and of the Torah. It is the story of how some of the ancient Semitic peoples became Jewish. Throughout the book, the god of the Hebrews reveals himself to Noah and Abraham and some of their relatives through various draconian catastrophes. It also chronicles the […]
December 10, 2012
For those of you who follow this blog to keep up with my book project based on my grandmother’s stories, I’ve started a website for the project now that it’s really underway and I’ll be blogging there about it from now on. Here’s the beginning of today’s post: A Belated Revolution It took a long […]
December 5, 2012
There’s this blogger chain project thing going around the internet at the moment called Next Big Thing. Last week I was tagged by Patrick O’Duffy and now it’s my turn. What you do is, answer 10 standard questions about your next major writing project (usually a book), post it the Wednesday after you were tagged, […]
November 5, 2012
For the last year or so, I’ve been blogging here irregularly about my project based on stories of the Québecois branch of my family. I’m very excited to announce that this project has recently been kicked into high gear. I’m off to the USA and Canada to write the first draft of a historical novel based on […]
March 27, 2012
Mid-last year I decided that 2012 was going to be my year of being a writer. I’ve been a professional writer for ages—the corporate kind. I enjoy corporate writing. I value immensely the things I have learnt from doing that work for ten years, particularly discipline and the ability to step back from my work […]
September 14, 2011
The stories told about my grandmother Madeleine are many and varied and mostly colourful. The most colourful and varied of these are those she told herself. I heard a lot of them before she died because she told us all stories when we were growing up and later I asked for more. I’m writing these […]
September 5, 2011
This year I’ve been getting increasingly obsessed with the idea of storytelling. It seems kind of obvious that I would think about the idea seeing as I call myself a writer. But, honestly, with the type of writing that I spend most of my time doing (blogging, tender writing, marketing copy, sponsorship proposals), storytelling is […]
August 17, 2011
Alphonsine and Pierre’s thirteenth and last child was my great-grandmother Florence. Her twelve siblings had dark hair and eyes and strong features from their father. They were tall and strong-looking. Florence had dark hair but was built delicately, had a finer complexion and pale grey eyes. There were rumours about this last baby. The most […]
March 25, 2013
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