Last week, I wrote about some of the events that took place during Winterset in Summer in Eastport, Newfoundland. This year, Winterset also partnered with Terra Nova National Park to hold workshop readings with award winning children’s author, illustrator and musician Martin Springett. Continue reading “The Winterset Experience: Part II”
The Winterset Experience
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the 2013 Winterset in Summer literary festival in Eastport, Newfoundland. I was invited to read from my novel Braco as part of the New Voices panel with Grant Loveys (Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed) and Claire Wilkshire (Maxine). Bert Riggs did an amazing job hosting our event, following up our readings with questions. For a first time novelist, it was a fabulous experience. Continue reading “The Winterset Experience”
Travel Shorts – France
In 1981, I went to Spain with my school for a ten day tour. While we were there, a classmate named Annette was obsessed with getting a pair of shoes that she could say were from Spain. At every stop, she skipped the souvenir shops and headed straight for any shoe shops she could find. Continue reading “Travel Shorts – France”
Travel Shorts – Moscow, Russia
In June 2010, I did a train tour of Scandinavia that ended in Russia. For my departure, I made the mistake of booking a very early flight and the airport in Moscow is over an hour outside the city.
Unless you had my taxi driver.
Yup. It was three in the morning, pouring rain and the road was more like a back country secondary road than an interstate. And my taxi driver was in a bigger hurry than I was.
He did 160 kph all the way.
I was too afraid to ask the driver to slow down. I didn’t want to distract him.
He made the trip in forty minutes. Continue reading “Travel Shorts – Moscow, Russia”
Never Forget Srebrenica
Our calendars are filled with anniversaries. For the most part, they are dates set aside to celebrate or remember a specific event. They are also an opportunity to educate.
Thursday, July 11, 2013 is the eighteenth anniversary of the Fall of Srebrenica. On that day in 1995, the Bosnian Serb army invaded the town and subsequently murdered more than eight thousand men and boys. More than 6800 have since been positively identified through DNA and 5657 have been buried at the memorial site in Potocari (as of July, 2012). This week, four hundred more will be laid to rest in Potocari.
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