At the beginning of April, I wrote about the bittersweet nature of this month for me, and for my mother. I shared the heartache and gratitude we each experience related to shared, and separate experiences, and how my mom’s experience inspired the events and theme of my first novel. So, it seems fitting that this …
Category: April
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Apr 01
Bittersweet April
One-hundred-and-six years ago this month, the Titanic went down in the Atlantic Ocean with over two-thousand people on board. A little over seven-hundred survived. Fifty-four years ago this month, my mother left Maywood Home for Unwed Mothers, in Vancouver BC, where she’d lived during the final weeks of her pregnancy, and entered Vancouver’s Grace Hospital. …
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Apr 30
Y is for Yippee! and You
Second to last day of the A to Z Challenge, and I am almost all lettered out. And totally chuffed. I decided to sign up for A to Z to challenge myself—no, to prove to myself, that I was better. Healed. Well enough to pick up the stiff, dry and cracked reins of my authorial dreams, get …
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Apr 26
W is for Wow! Words.
A to Z Challenge nearing the end. It’s letter W, or Wow! Words. Wow. An odd word. A palindrome. What’s a palindrome? A word, phrase, or sentence that spells the same backwards and forwards, like tot, bob, peep, pop, damm’it I’m mad, etc. I know. Cool. And fun. Words are fun. My favorite games as a child were …
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Apr 13
L is for London
End of week two of the A to Z Challenge and the letter is L. And L just happens to be the first letter of a place I long to visit: London. I have no idea if reincarnation is real, but if it is, then in a former life I hailed from London, because it is the …
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Apr 12
K is for Kismet
K is today’s A to Z Challenge letter, and today’s theme: Kismet. From Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary: Kismet (kis´met, -met, kis´-), n, fate; destiny. Also, kismat (kiz´mət, kis´-), [1840-50; Turk, Pers qismat, Ar qismahdivision, portion, lot, fate, akin to qasamato divide]. Kismet, as a word, has existed since the mid-19thcentury; I suspect kismet as a …
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Apr 10
The “I” has It.
Today’s A to Z Challenge letter is I. And today’s I-words: Inspiration, Invention, and Imagination; critical tools in a writer’s toolbox. Inspiration is that Idea moment. You wake up, like VickiPettersson did, from a dream about a woman killing a man with the heel of a stiletto, and after you muse “what the ?” you …
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Apr 05
E = Electronics!
Not only is today A to Z Challenge’s day 5, or the blog theme Letter E, but it’s Celebrate the Small Things Friday! And I could not be more grateful for today’s E word: ELECTRONICS! Yes. Thomas Alva Edison’s genius invention has morphed from the awe-inspiring light bulb, to the brilliantly conceived smart phone, and …
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Apr 03
Cowboys
Day 3 of A to ZChallenge, which means the letter C, and one of my favorite topics: Cowboys. I have a soft spot for everything cowboy. Could have something to do with the fact I grew up country. Or the mystique that surrounds the lean, hard men that seem impervious to dust and cold, happy …
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Apr 02
Bollocks and Beginnings
Day 2 of the A to Z Challenge, otherwise known as the letter B. The first thing that popped into my head when I pondered what to write that would reflect today’s B-theme was “bollocks”. I love this word. It shows up often in some of my favorite romance novels, especially regency-era. Though it means …
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