Archive for November, 2010

THE NORTHERN REVIEW – 2010. When The Furnace Talked

‘SCAPES – poetry anthology. 3 poems

THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW: COMPLAINT

Thursday November 25th, 2010 in Poems

Terribly pleased to be in this prestigous journal with a poem about a guy complaining about how much he hates having the circus come to town.

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GOLF GEEZER FROM HELL is in this anthology, FIT TO DIE.

Thursday November 25th, 2010 in In My Life Stuff

I’ve played golf with a guy just like the one in this story. Most of my stuff is true but slightly changed to protect the innocent.

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INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR CANADIANS – Oxford Press! (Handling being a ‘Woman Of Size.’)

Thursday November 25th, 2010 in In My Life Stuff

Delighted that one of my 10 Globe & Mail pieces was saved for this great anthology. Another creative non-fiction piece, this about weight problems, mine and my mother’s who never found the positive solutions that I have found. RED POTTERY PIG is worth reading.

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EATING APPLES: KNOWING WOMEN’S LIVES. First creative non-fiction piece mining my upbringing

Thursday November 25th, 2010 in In My Life Stuff

This was also reviewed online by a woman who happened to pick up the book and decided my story was the one on which to focus. (See LINKS).

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ICE STORM ANTHOLOGY – WE WERE OUT OF OUR HOME FOR 3 MONTHS!

Wednesday November 24th, 2010 in Books I've Written Myself, In My Life Stuff

The 1997/’98 ice storm permanently closed my bookshop of 20 some years. We had lived above it. Our 50 year old furnace died (duh). It may have been older than that. All our pipes froze and broke and shelves with 35000 books were on top of them. So we had to move ALL [...]

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IBBITY IS MY CHAPBOOK – Contains Coming Down The Alaska Highway

Saturday November 20th, 2010 in Books I've Written Myself

Ibbity has a short piece about our 6 week trip down the Alaska highway, a year or so before it opened officially when I was a child and why I am completely travelled out. I still have a few of these great productions around, thanks to Kemeny Babineau and his publishing house. There are some [...]

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MENOPAUSE IS MURDER ANTHOLOGY

Thursday November 18th, 2010 in Books I've Written Myself

My story in this wouldn’t be possible today due to cell phone cameras but I do have characters who come to accept and even love their bodies and a great blackmail scheme in the days before cell phone cameras

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THE MYSTERY REVIEW

Wednesday November 17th, 2010 in Books I've Written Myself

Wrote 12 years for this Canadian bi-monthly as an Out Of Print Book Columnist, though actually they let me write anything I wanted. This one’s column was THE MYSTERY MARRIAGE RACKET and ran two pages.

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