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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. – Jack Layton For the record, I am a great crier. To echo Jude Law’s character in The Holiday (one of my favourite romantic movies, regardless of . . . → Read More: Bring Hope Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles Schulz I spent the day at my brother and sister-in-law’s place. My sister, sister-in-law, and I were kicking off what might yet become an annual tradition—the Christmas craft making adventure. There was Christmas music, mulled cider, snacks and just . . . → Read More: The Pinterest Effect If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Stephen King In 2004, about six months after we moved into the house we now live in, we cancelled . . . → Read More: The Box Raylene Rankin passed away last Sunday, dying of the disease that takes more Nova Scotians than any other Canadians: cancer. She was only 52. She was buried today in Mabou. It’s hard to explain the melancholy I’ve felt this week because of it, which is interesting because I never actually knew her. I’ve seen her perform with . . . → Read More: She’s crossed that river A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance. – C.S. Lewis This edition of my favourite things is about stuff that falls into the realm of obsession. Things that sing their siren song to me while others can walk on by, deaf to their seductive charms. I am not unique in any of . . . → Read More: My favourite things: the obsession list Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James Short post, because it’s summer (and what an amazing summer we are having) and I have a print out beside me of what I’ve written to date on my latest WIP. I had to stop and see . . . → Read More: Summer afternoons At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. Elizabeth Barrett Browning I took this week off work, mostly because this time of year I need the vacation (almost as much as the summer) and it being the Easter long weekend, using four days of vacation to . . . → Read More: Distractions I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher As you are no doubt aware, this is a leap year. This means that for those of us who wish there were more than 24 hours in a day, or looking for that extra day…well, this week you get it!!! And you don’t . . . → Read More: The patience project Lost time is never found again – Benjamin Franklin For a total week, I have done nothing. Well, not completely nothing. Some strain of plague (perhaps over doing it there…let’s just say, the cold from ‘hell’) crept into the house last Friday went through my house in the past week. Days were a haze of nose blowing, . . . → Read More: The Lost Week If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart It’s Thanksgiving Weekend, and I can smell turkey cooking (and thanks to one of my local farmers, it will be an awesome feast). This probably isn’t the most creative of posts, but I am a lover of lists. . . . → Read More: Thanks for the cozy sheets |
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