This is a photograph of a friend’s granddaughter. If you take a closer look, you will notice she is actually holding a copy of Not Alone On The Voyage in her hands. I’m not sure she’s actually reading it in this photo, but I have heard that this little girl is already reading. She hasn’t even officially started school yet. Somehow, I think she’s got a bright future ahead of her. In some ways, I envy her – she’s got a LOT…..
This is going to sound a tad arrogant, but writing comes fairly easily to me. Maintaining a blog? Well that’s an entirely different story? (Did you see what I did there?) There have been numerous starts and stops for me with this one and I’m not promising that circle won’t continue in the future – but I take a certain amount of comfort in knowing that I am taking up the torch yet again and pushing forward. Whether I want…..
As I share with you all my latest blog post, I have a friend visiting from Ottawa. She and I have been friends for most of our lives (I think we were 7 or 8 when we met), and she is officially only the second person to have come visit me in the entire time I have lived in the NWT I get a lot of people who tell me they would really love to come visit me, but when…..
It’s kind of funny. When I tell people where I live, a lot of people are astonished. They can’t imagine even spending half a minute here. For me, I can’t really imagine living anywhere south of the 60thparallel these days. In recent months, I have come to realize that while I have been flipping back and forth between the NWT and Ottawa for 21 years – and I think the needle has finally moved to the point where I have…..
It’s a bit weird. For some reason over the last few days, I have been wondering if I was “allowed” to write the story I did in Not Alone on the Voyage. I have no idea where the heck this thought came from, because it’s never been a question I have been asked. I will admit, however, to having been concerned that the people here – those who have lived their entire lives here (or darn near as close) –…..
So yeah. It’s been a while. I think I said that the last time. And the time before that. And the time before that. You get the picture, I am sure. When I published my little book, I saw it as the beginning of a new and exciting adventure. After having held the story to close to my heart for far too long, taking that step to share it with the world was big enough – and I secretly thought…..
It’s been a little more than a year now since Not Alone on the Voyage saw the light of day. It’s been an interesting journey, one that I had begun to think would never happen. And perhaps it wasn’t as exciting or successful as it could have been, but the fact that my book was published at all is an achievement. Is it enough of an achievement for me? I think the jury is still out on that one……
So…I’ve been a little radio-silent of late. Well, okay. Maybe a lot. I never meant to do it, it just happened. Life got in my way, and I stepped away from a lot of things for a while. And then that while took a lot longer than I had expected it would. This is kind of a regular part of my process. I get too much in my head, and I need to step away, put a few things in…..
So I’ve been kind of off the grid for a bit. Well…not posting here on this page, at the least. I’m not ignoring anyone – I’ve just been doing a lot of thinking. In my last post, I talked about how sometimes it’s more exciting to watch the story unfold in my head, and there are times when I simply don’t want to share what’s going on. And that’s where I found myself. I was fortunate enough to spend the…..
Sometimes, I don’t want to share the ideas in my head. When I find myself thinking about new characters – and potentially a new story to write – I have the greatest, liveliest movie going in my head. Sometimes, it’s infinitely better than just about anything I have read. Remember – I said just about anything…lol I love seeing the stories come alive for me. As the characters start to take shape and they begin to start talking to me,…..
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