My beautiful friend Hannah Briggs McNeill sent me this note: "Much love and appreciation for you. Your book is funny and quirky and beautiful and makes me want to hop right over to Newfoundland to hug you." I can't wait to be a Newfoundlander who travels and blogs again. Until then, here's an excerpt from my time in Italy: Everyone is going around speaking Italian. When they’re not speaking Italian, they’re speaking other languages with Italian accents. I try not to speak at all so … [Read more...]
Girly Muckle and the Queer Hands.
A Selkie isn't a cutie-pie creature. So don't go imagining, like, the mermaid from that warped Disney movie. We don't swim around with our boobs covered in seashells, with roses draped around our curvy fins. We don't dance with lobsters at the bottom of the ocean. We eat them with our bare teeth. … [Read more...]
Remember to love life.
I thought I would remind myself, and the Unity-Verse, that I published two books last year. For some reason it's been easy for me to forget. Some days I struggle to remember my accomplishments. I'm going to remedy that feeling by sharing a review of my books from the always thoughtful and talented Joan Sullivan. This article was published in the Telegram on September 2, 2021. Read on, and thanks so much for spending time with this: Publishing a book is an accomplishment; having two released … [Read more...]