Author Salon – not for the weak or lazy

My novel, Weather Vane is The Cost of Weather now, thanks to a suggestion by an administrator at Author Salon, a remarkable and unique new service available on the web. I was invited to join the site as it was being developed. The process of joining  proved to be the...

Ten Glimpses of Home – a poem

Ten Glimpses of Home 1. that safe place of solace and solitude where all my things are laid   2. that place I couldn’t enter, every door barred or locked or pinned with signs, “Keep Out”   3. that place where family smiled, polite conversation, knives and forks held...

Searching for… cool things from 1971?

This post will be brief. Every time I check my stats the “Top Searches” field always has these search requests: famous people in 1973, writers organization, philip seymour hoffman, cool things from 1971, writers images. Really. Sometimes it includes Jim...

Memoir in Poetry

This month I get to  exuberantly promote my favourite writing teacher, mentor and divine friend, Sue Reynolds. Without her, I’d be nothing. Okay, that might be taking a bit far… but I am very pumped to be able to share her with my local community at the upcoming...