Miss Ingenuous

by | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog Archive

This happened yesterday. NPR WOW I know no one at NPR. I don’t think I know anyone at the National Post, yet one of their columnists called me, also yesterday; someone at the paper had told her that I was great, and exactly the right person to ask about Ray...

Red & Grey

by | May 12, 2012 | Blog Archive

I should be performing at Roy Thomson Hall tonight. I performed there in 1987, when I was 17 and my high school turned 75. I sat in the trombone section alongside alumni who’d graduated decades and decades ago, and we played wonderful, challenging, exhilarating...

Labours of Love (or, Sweet & Sour)

by | May 11, 2012 | Blog Archive

The dearest wish of my heart used to be full-time writerdom. This wish persisted from about 1978 to 2006. It was granted (thanks to a second maternity leave, a second book contract, and a supportive first husband) for the last three-plus years of this period. Now? No...

Auroras in the House!

by | Apr 14, 2012 | Blog Archive, News

The Pattern Scars has been nominated for another award. I can’t win this one if you click a little voting dot every day. No–you can vote only once for this one. And it’ll cost you. Here’s the link to the nominations:...

Nola is Audible!

by | Apr 11, 2012 | Blog Archive, News

There was a Pattern Scars Google alert in my mailbox this morning. Seems the audio book is now available. http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=mp_ja_1_3?asin=B007RYXBSU I listened to the clip while Peter and I and most of the cats were still in bed. It was a little jarring...