Feb
17
A guest post I wrote recently (Dutch Boys and Fast Boats) for the amazing Blog of Green Gables: a mother–daughter reading journal by Kristen den Hartog and "N," got me thinking about the books that made an impression on me as a child. Not long after the post appeared, I...
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Feb
16
Sisters Carol and Mary Jane McPhee had no idea a year and a half ago that something big would develop out of a technique they stumbled on to communicate with -- and bring some light to the days of --...
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Feb
13
Announcement by Arleigh Fanning Kory Shillam has always been a writer. Daughter of William Albert Tutte, the front page editor of the Vancouver Sun during the Second World War, she came by her love of the written word honestly. As one of her six daughters, I...
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Feb
09
Guest post by Tilya Gallay Helfield "I kept thinking of the movie The King’s Speech and worried I might develop a stutter. . . ." I was thrilled when I received the first e-mail from Karen Levine, producer of CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition, on November 21st, telling me that there...
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Feb
09
Award-winning Canadian novelist William Deverell was a featured speaker at my Namaste Gardens Writing & Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica last month. Against a backdrop of lush foliage, cascading flowers and startling blue pool, and with the occasional curious tropical bird or butterfly pausing to watch, he shared with retreat participants...
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Jan
31
Sandra, a resident of Costa Rica, was guest speaker at my Namaste Gardens Writing & Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica, January 2012. This essay is based on her presentation. I’ve known I wanted to be a writer ever since I wrote a two-page autobiography at the age of nine....
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