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Pioneering Newfoundland writer, feminist, and activist Helen Fogwill Porter died last month at the age of 92. A plethora of tributes were published in the days following her death, ranging from a profile in the lofty Globe and Mail to a deeply personal CBC interview with her lifelong friend and fellow writer Bernice Morgan (who …
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Coming up with a "Top Ten" or "Top Anything" list of favourite books from the past year is a little project I've been doing since, oh ... 2006? Some years it's easy, and other years it's frickin' difficult, mostly because I've read so many good books in a given year that I can't narrow it …
In a not-unexpected turn of events, Jason and I spent a week on a boat last month -- on a canal boat on the Llangollen Canal along the border of England and northern Wales. We last did a trip like this when the kids were small, and have always wanted to do it again. Finally, …
Two years and one month into the pandemic, back in April 2022, I got Covid-19. At least, I think I did. My husband got sick, and tested positive on a PCR test. Two days later I got a negative result, but two days after that I started getting sick myself, and was miserable for about …
March 14 was the two-year anniversary of the first case of Covid-19 reported in Newfoundland and Labrador. It was also the day when, despite astronomically high case rates and record deaths, the NL government followed suit with governments all over the country and in many parts of the world in rushing to declare victory over …
The other day I posted this picture on my social media to celebrate a small personal milestone: I reached the end of the first draft of A Company of Rogues, which will be book 3 in my Cupids Trilogy and is scheduled to be released in Fall 2023. (If you look closely you can probably …
Well, the curse has come true. We live in interesting times. It friggin sucks and I personally had hoped to avoid this. I hoped to live out my allotted span on this earth in an era without any new world wars, great depressions, or global pandemics. Basically nothing that would be a required essay question …
Since I've already given you a list of my favourite books, I'll continue with the list motif and tell you some of the TV shows I really enjoyed in the past year. I'll be honest: most of my TV time is spent watching Star Trek reruns. But occasionally I do take a chance and dip …
This is not exactly ground-breaking news, but I read a lot of books this year. I get different totals by look at my Goodreads account, my Pinterest page, and this blog, because I don't always remember to record every book in every case, so for a year-end total I'm going with the Pinterest board, because …
Sometimes people share a meme online where they ask, "What would you be doing if you'd fulfilled your childhood dream for when you grew up?" Mine is the most boring answer: exactly this. I never wanted to (or was qualified to, really) do anything but teach and write. I decided in about Grade 2 or …
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