As much as I meditate and try to simplify my life and live in the present moment, somehow I live in distraction, constantly being pulled...

I spent the morning with grade 4 kids, getting them totally wound up as we created stories together. We discovered one teacher, Mrs. L,...

I’m a co-star in a cartoon! This summer, children’s illustrator Carolyn Fisher wrote a blog about a Young Alberta Book Society meeting,...

Well, I didn’t do anything as disciplined as writing 1000 new words a day, (Writing on the Road, Aug 27) but I did write every day (well,...

After my June 4 post, Writing and Doubt, a writer friend, Rebecca Upjohn, referred to the never-ending Mobius strip of creativity. I...

I was lying in the hammock, enjoying the sunshine and letting a story idea percolate, when I came across this quote: “It’s a shame that...