Just Starting Out

I have always bitten off little chunks of my life, like pieces of thread and sold them to whatever journal, magazine or anthology was handy at the time. Some have been songs. On these pages I’m going to try and get some of them together as well as promote the latest work. Currently it is a memoir called, A Story Of Salterton.

A few months from now I hope to have a video of ‘Salterton’ you can walk through, in case you can’t come to visit. It is a real place in the world, as real to me as it was to Robertson Davies who invented all the names for the places we will visit in the book and soon, here on the web.

I am a neophyte in terms of doing a website so it should certainly improve soon. As well as prose, I have been doing poetry the past couple years, thanks to poet friends and publishers, John Barlow and Kemeny Babineau. Kemeny published my first chapbook last year as Laurel Reid Books. There will be a link to where you can buy a copy from him if you like.

Generally a song finds me everyday so I will probably be noting what it is. Today’s, Saturday, after two days of my job share it was Bing Crosby’s, ‘When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day.’

As well, I usually write a daily poem which I am planning to post here too. The Antagonishe Review will be publishing one, Complaint in their next issue so I will be linking to them shortly.

They have asked for a short bio which are always tricky. I am a mid-life woman with a newly-discovered meti heritage, making me a meti-jewish-pennslyvania dutch, possible dane. Every single bit of that history makes me sing which I do a lot of on streets and in the locker rooms of Salterton.