“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can...

Before my trip to Mexico earlier this year, I wrote about some recommended beach reads. You can find that link here. Well, by the time...

Let me preface this week's review by saying no, I haven't seen the movie. I love movies, but I love books too (more, usually!). So I am...

In July was the first round of the Flash Fiction challenge. I was assigned action/adventure for a genre, a high-speed train for a...

Today's review addresses a book set in nineteenth-century Paris. It blends historical research with fictional developments and...

I am moving towards completion of The Girl with the Empty Suitcase. That's right, the end is in sight! I just was talking to a potential...

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle...

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. —Vera Nazarian In last week's book review for...

It's Thursday, everyone! You know what that means! It's book review day! Since I am still working on the Dark Tower series, and I want to...

In one of the author groups that I have joined on Facebook, someone was talking about her brand and her name, debating on whether to...

Something a little different in this week's book review. Poetry. I had this one student for the past few years. (She graduated this...

If you subscribed to my first newsletter, this will look familiar. In it, I talked a bit about perspective. My book changes perspective...

It is time. I have been waiting to do my review of this book, and since my overview of all of Austen's novels is on the horizon, it's now...

There was a commercial out a while ago - probably for beer. Yes, I think it was a Molson commercial. Anyway, the slogan for it went...

Happy Canada Day! Not only is today a celebration of the day we officially became a country, but it is Canada's 150th birthday! To say...

Earlier this month I talked about a flash fiction writing contest I will be taking part in come July. During this contest, I will be...

I am totally cheating for today's book review. And you know what? I am okay with that. Today is the last day of school for me, and one of...

Well, yes and no. Technically, summer officially began on the 20th this year. Unofficially, we see May Long weekend as the unofficial...

A couple weeks ago, I reviewed Into Thin Air. You can check out that review here. While I am in the process of winding down the school...

In April, I came up with a "Spring Bucket List". I thought, since today is officially the first day of summer, I would revisit this list...