Tech Review: There’s a Yeti Sitting on my Desk!
Recently my wife brought home a Yeti. If you’re thinking the Yeti I’m referring to is just like the main character from Harry and the Hendersons, one of my favourite movies that my father took me to theaters to see when…
Book Review: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
I’ve been on a non-fiction kick for the last few book reviews. This is no exception. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed, awakened something in me that has been dormant for a long time.…
Minecraft + iPad Helps my Special Needs Son
My 6 year old son sure has come a long way over the last couple of years- with a lot of help and some technology. He was almost born on Halloween night back in 2008, but a grueling 17 hour labor…
Book Review: An Invisible Thread By Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
In the last few posts I have read and reviewed: the plight of women in Ascent of Women by Sally Armstrong, I tried to organize the chaos that is my desk with The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie…
Book Review: Ascent of Women by Sally Armstrong
The book the Ascent of Women is profound. The plight that is equal rights for women has been a centuries old struggle and did not start with bra burning in 1968, which most of us were taught. Ascent of WomenA…
Tech Review: Sphero 2.0
Technology- and all the thing that entails- is a wonderful thing for writers. I spend a lot of time working with tech products, and they help me in many ways. I look for ways to improve our writing lives, and in my…
Book Review: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
As I stated in my first blog post, I have a messy desk. But the mess doesn’t stop there. I am a busy mom of three and I want to learn to clean my house more efficiently. I know where everything…
Book Review: Ru by Kim Thuy
When I heard that the winner of the 2015 Canada Reads contest was Ru: A Novel by Kim Thuy, I was a little shocked. The buzz around the literary world was that Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian was being touted…
