“Draw what you like and hope others like it too”. Charles Schulz Substitute “create” for “draw” and that advice is suitable for any medium. As…
Every week I spend some time stressing over my choice of topics for this blog. I scratch through my running list of possible ideas, pick…
My writing style has an affliction I refer to as comma-itis. Around and through my sentences and paragraphs are an abundance of commas. I tend…
On impulse one evening I googled ‘short story contests Canada’. And guess what? The CBC short story contest is under way! The deadline for submissions…
Summertime, and the living is easy. It is time to relax — vacations, sunshine, excursions, swimming, picnics… what’s not to love? If summer is your…
Can you, (‘should’ you?), create for free? Of course you ‘should’. Create anyway. I created ten chapters of a comic series, Contentment is for Cows….
Art is wonderful, no? Everyone appreciates some form of art, whether they are aware of it as art or not. Everything, from a clever graphic…
If I felt I was fully prepared, I have always enjoyed writing an exam. To me, exams were like solving puzzles, and I liked being…
My family members who read this will recognize the verse posted here. It hung in our kitchen for years, and my Mother would challenge anyone…
One of my guilty pleasures is rap music. Some of you might find that surprising, but I am a fan of music with rhythm and…