My Blog

  • Where to find my more recent articles

    I have moved my writing over to Substack. Thank you for reading! I would be delighted to see you support my work by subscribing to my Substack blog, Another View. Read more

  • Finding focus

    In recent weeks I have had an obsession with getting my house organized. I feel I need to do this so that I can focus. This has extended to cleaning up my blogs as well. I can relate to the article, Lifestyles of the (semi)Disconnected by Angela Parker on her site, theunconventionalhousewife.com. To de-stress, Angela cut social media Read more

  • Relaxing in the sun

    I just spent six days lounging by a pool in the Arizona sun. One of my sisters rented a house in Phoenix and invited me and our two other sisters to stay with her. All of my family live in central Canada and I live on the West Coast, so it was lovely to get together Read more

  • Give me the evidence

    I recently read an article, yet another claim to a cancer cure. It stated that this product was 10,000 times more effective than chemo. That statement alone should clue you in. It claims that pharmaceutical companies could not come up with a synthetic version so they covered up the evidence of studies done some decades Read more

  • My writing journey

    This is “about me.” Apparently people want to know a little about me, besides the thoughts I put on my “About” page. When I was about ten years old I received a diary. I didn’t put many entries in it, but it was where my writing habit began. Around the age of  twelve I began Read more

  • Editing – it’s happening

    I just had to share that I started editing my novel yesterday and it went well. I rounded out a scene. I did some research. I read up on plot versus character and I mapped out my plot on a large sheet of sketching paper. Mapping out my plot was very revealing. I saw that a Read more

  • Does my life look the way I want it to look?

    Something needs to change around here. I was away on holidays for two weeks. When I returned, we moved so I spent that week finding places for things. The next week I started my website and it took a lot of time to figure out what I was doing. This is week five since I Read more

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