I am so grateful to Ursula Maxwell-Lewis/SiWC.ca for this photo she took of me at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference. She managed to capture the booth before the sign fell down and me before I came down with my daughter’s going away present: a fever that left me looking like a truck ran over me. To see more pictures of the conference, be sure to check out their website...and yes, I’ve already scheduled to go back next year.
Ursula…thank you. Ursula takes wonderful photos.
Things are settling down on the home front now, and before I launch into the adventure of making Thanksgiving Cookies, I thought I should post an update to the blog. Web design is full of technical potholes, some of which are deeper than others. Some of them are giant sinkholes just waiting for the unwary….
Note: I’m now an affiliate for SiteGround. I’d been with my hosting company for over 10 years. I’d recommended them more times than I could count, and for most of those years I was happy. My friends and clients were happy. Life was good and my internet presence was stable. I knew I could count…
My precious daughter has just proven that she has an advanced mechanical aptitude. In other words: she can now defeat any and all child-safety devices–at 3 years of age. Life has reached a new and more terrifying level of adventure. Her brothers are shocked and horrified, as if the universe has become more dangerous and…
Another entry in my ongoing notes about the women who have influenced my life. Belle became my stand-in grandmother in my junior high years. She would take me into her home on Saturdays and we would craft beautiful things. My parents had accepted my insane love of hand-crafts by that point in life and felt…
It has been one of THOSE days. By noon, I hadn’t cleared out my in-box yet. In fact, it is now almost 4PM and it STILL isn’t cleared out. It’s better, but whew! About Noon, I realized I hadn’t even started the soup for dinner yet. Since I’d planned dinner to be one of those long simmering soups…
Warning: I’m pretty sure to offend everyone with this post. A few days ago an acquaintance posted something to Facebook that offended me so deeply it actually stuck in my brain and wouldn’t leave. I had nightmares about it for two nights. It made me angry, and then I was troubled because it made me…