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…
Publishing, SEO, and Blogs
Writers, myself included, want to be recognized for their hard work that they do. They want to have books published, and their names in print, and they want to have that now. the blog cloud It’s great most people want…
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…
Quality Alert? Writers and The Internet
A writer must consider quality content above all else. It’s a great statement when you first glance at it. It is one of these ‘think positive’ type of messages we all love to hear or read about. I agree with…
Tech Review: Mechanical Keyboards
Why on Earth would anyone pay $200 for a computer keyboard?! My last blog post (which was actually my first ever post on a website) talked about speech to text Apps that would save you the trouble of typing. I’m not a…
Book Review: Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest & Coloring Book by Johanna Basford
Growing up I loved to color. We had video games and a television but I grew up in a time when only about an hour of screen time was the average for the day. No Internet, iPads or cell phones. My…
Book Review: On Immunity by Eula Biss
I want you to think about a time when you had a really bad headache. A headache so bad that you couldn’t get out of bed and you truly felt that your head was going to explode. Now take that…
Writing Advice Worth Its Weight in Gold
Writers get a lot of writing advice. Some of it is truly powerful and useful, and some of it is not. One of the most important things about advice is seeing where it is coming from. It is about knowing…
