As I write this post, I’m surrounded by bits of paper covering both my desk and home office floor. Why? It’s tax season in Canada, and with a filing deadline of April 30, the pressure is on. When I wasn’t self-employed, tax season, although still involving some...
Over the next few days, those of us in Canada, the UK, the United States and other countries mark Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day and Veterans Day. These commemorations emerged following the First World War, when the Armistice agreement was signed...
After five long years when pandemic restrictions and then my own bout with Covid precluded travel, I’m finally able to visit England again this summer. It’s still and always will be, important to who I am as a person and writer and one of the places I call...
On X (formerly Twitter), Welsh author friend Tracy Rees posted recently that she has two desks, an “expensive oak-topped one” and a “cheap self-assembly one” she built twenty-three years ago and has “carried…from house to house…ever since.” I too have several desks...
International Women’s Day is March 8 during what is also Women’s History Month in many countries. It’s a day to recognize women’s achievements, particularly in ways that have made a positive difference to society or for women and girls (for example, women’s...
