Cultivating the Perfect Mood for the Next Chapter
Happy 2025! It’s Time For a Reset Have you ever followed your comfort zone into stagnation? Fall of 2022 unleashed a new revelation—I was creatively paralyzed. Yearning to expand, push my limits, and shatter the constraints I’d placed on my storytelling, I stepped away from publication pressure and committed to learning how to write […]
Plotting Suspense: My Chat with a Screenwriter!
November is halfway through, and in Toronto, the weather is leaning towards winter. It’s a beautiful time, with damp air and the striking reds of Japanese maples still holding strong. But something unexpected happened last weekend… 🌧️🍁 I chatted with a screenwriter student who’s already conquered her first film set! The tales she shared about morning […]
Viola and Me, Again
An Epic Explosion of Female Power. Over the last 18 months, I’ve been lucky enough to make some new friends—all of us from different cultures, cities, provinces, countries, and continents. What I like about our connections is how we nourish and care for each other and our friendships. I haven’t always been that fortunate. Speaking […]
Viola and Me
My copy of Viola Davis’s memoir dropped on my doorstep on April 26. It’s the second memoir I picked up in the last few months of two Hollywood stars I admire. The first was Will Smith’s. Viola Davis is one of my favourite actors. Actor is such a small word for what she does. She […]
Anything else ma’am?
It was March Break a couple of weeks ago, but I needed a COVID break. I settled for a staycation in trendy Yorkville, downtown Toronto. I love staying at hotels. Don’t you? No obligations to cook, make the bed, or clear the kitchen sink. Like any good downtime, I went out for a walk when […]
Let’s Talk About Love
Happy Valentine’s Day! It wouldn’t be Valentine’s if we didn’t talk about love. I started my romance movie marathon more than a week early. Last Friday, I stayed up until 2:30 the next morning, watching some fine British actors in the hilarious RomCom, Love Actually. I would watch anything with Emma Thompson and Chiwetel Ejiofor. […]
Torn in The Nation
I came across this clipping from a feature The Nation ran last year when I was in Barbados to promote Torn…. (click on image for full size)
Me, Or Who You Want Me To Be?
I’ve always been the contemplative type—more caught up in thought than conversation. No wonder I like writing. Only a few days ago, someone said to me, “You can’t trust quiet people. You never know what they are thinking.” Being me, my first thought was, I have to defend myself. And so I proceeded to do […]
Month In Review . . . Highlight
How was your April? I can sum up the month on my end with one word —hectic. Hectic can be good, not just challenging, but adventurous and rewarding. For a few short days during the second week of April, a dream of mine came true. I hosted a signing of my novel, Torn in […]
