Monthly Archive: October 2012

Oct 05

A Novel about Winnipeg I discovered in my computer

  Hello!  I was digging around my mac today and found the beginnings of a novel about twenty-something roommates set in Winnipeg. This is from around 2007.  I was a twenty-something and you can tell.  I think my favourite part is when I say “ Like most women in their twenties who think that some men …

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Oct 02

An Excerpt from my Chapter on Tennessee

Sometime in 1981.  After playing in the mud.  Me in my mom's pink VW Bug.  It was my favourite car.  Still is.

Tennessee   I was a closet country fan as a kid.  In the early 1990’s it wasn’t cool to be into Johnny Cash or Dolly Parton.  They were coming out of the dark ages of the ‘80’s and if it hadn’t been for Dolly’s business savvy to act in films, she might not have kept …

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Oct 01

A new excerpt from my book! Maine and the Mary Day Schooner

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The Windjammer Association was celebrating its 75th Anniversary the week I was resident minstrel aboard the Mary Day.   The husband and wife duo, Captain’s Barry King and Jen Martin have two beautiful children and as a family, they lead a very unorthodox existence.  The kids have grown up barefoot aboard this schooner and have gotten …

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