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

  • Paint what you see

    Yesterday I saw the sky, strikingly blue, behind a row of dark evergreens and a bright yellow-orange poplar. As usual, I wanted to imprint the scene in my memory and paint it. There is something inside me that desires to capture and hold beauty. As I looked at the intensity of the colors and the… 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

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