Just Love Them

What do you do if you love someone who doesn’t love themselves? It’s probably a question we have all asked ourselves, but… Unless you are right in it, perhaps even if you're not in love with the person who doesn’t love themselves, the question may not hold much of your attention. We all go through …

Kamloops Writers Festival

One of my many New Year’s resolutions last year was to attend at least one writer’s conference or festival. Although there many to choose from throughout North America, there are many that are just too costly including travel and accommodations. Instead of looking listlessly at the announcements for the ones too far from me, I …

Shadows

Shadows. Everyone has one. The funny thing about shadows is that they don’t lurk in the dark so much as painstakingly display themselves on the brightest of days. If you want to hide it, it stands dark, following you no matter where you go. Although we are all accustomed to seeing our physical shadows, we …

My {not so light} Summer Reading List

Words are my happy place. It doesn’t matter if I’m reading them, writing them or explaining them to my children; words make me happy. And, because words make me so happy, any time that I can spend reading (or writing for that matter), helps to calm me and bring me back to a place where …

My Serious Face

I was around nine-years-old the first time someone told me I was too serious. I was playing outside with a group of friends at school. I moved around a lot and this had been my third move in the last year. Kids are resilient and, back in the early ‘90’s, not nearly as mean or …

Solace in Monotony

We get stuck in the monotony of every day life. The days go by, many just like the ones before them and before we know it we’ve missed the opportunity to make not just moments special, but days, weeks and months as well. Life gets tiring: the daily grind of getting up early, dealing with …

Wooden Pants Publishing Radio Interview

I’ve always had this thing about my voice. I’m sure we all have it to some extent, but I really dislike hearing it recorded. On top of that, to be completely honest, I’m really an introvert who isn’t a big fan of people a lot of the time. This being said, I love a good …

Success

If you had asked me 15 years ago what success looked like to me, one of two things would have happened: 1. I wouldn’t have been able to answer the question and I would have laughed it off. I’d have changed the subject, asked what it looked like to you then excused myself with needing …

Monotony

We get stuck in the monotony of every day life. The days go by, many just like the ones before them and before we know it we’ve missed the opportunity to make not just moments special, but days, weeks and months as well. Life gets tiring: the daily grind of getting up early, dealing with …

No Regret, Just Some Change

We see quotes and articles claiming that we should never regret the choices we made; simply learn from them and do something differently. We are told that everything happens for a reason and there’s a reason, albeit sometimes a very weak one, for why everything happens. Although I agree in some respects, and I don’t …