My Book Launch is happening. Here’s the info:
Memoir
Creamed Peas and Mushroom Soup
Okay, if ever there were a title more gag-inducing, at least for me, this would be it. I’ll tell you (mercifully briefly) why.
School Daze 1950
This is a repost from two years ago.
From Van Horne to Iona to Royal Vale, we schlepped to find a school that would admit a four-year-old.
Ever since I’d taught my next-door neighbour to read – we were both four years old – I was obsessed with the idea of going to school. If my big brother could go, why couldn’t I?
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MS Anniversary – 20 years
In 1997 my diagnosis finally came – not as a shock – but as a confirmation.
Delicious Delis of Montreal
This post of mine was pretty popular the first time around. I can’t imagine why! 😀 Yesterday I went to The Main deli across from Schwartz’s, and although I felt a bit like a traitor, I have to say it wasn’t half bad. 😉
Schwartz’s, The Main, Smoke Meat Pete’s, Snowdon Deli, Lester’s, Dunn’s, Nickel’s, plus Ben’s, Dusty’s, Delly Boys and Caplan’s of bygone times… our Montreal Delis have always been unique and each has had its own legions of fans.
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Love – Love
This is a reboot of a post from two years ago; hope you like it! 🙂
Signs of Summer
Wacky signs my daughter saw in Paris etc.!
I’ve fallen way behind in posting. Instead of continuing to stare at all the great ideas I have for epic posts and not actually writing any of them, I’ll try to break the bloggers’ block by posting some amusing signs I’ve come across in my last couple of months of travels. They might be amusing only to me, so no guarantees… Photos taken in Montréal, Toronto, and Paris, France.
Do not post. File under: “Irony”
File under: “Who thought this was a good idea?”
How are the fruit and vegetable bags? File under: “Low-tech, in situ survey technology”
File under: “If staplers are such a common request, why don’t they just keep one there?”
Little dog bar. File under: “Just plain cute.”
4 Little Songs of Mine
Sometime back I shared with you the lyrics to a song I wrote in my songwriting heyday in the ’80s. It was called Time Goes. Later on I uploaded the actual sound file, which I explained was sung by a singer I hired at the time for a demo, because I didn’t like my own voice very much.
Good-bye Adam West and All the Rest
I started thinking about Adam (aka “Batman”) West’s passing Friday, and it brought back so many memories of the early (black & white!) days of television. Adam was a perfect Batman, square-jawed and brave – nothing fazed him. For new followers, here are a few other things I wrote over a year ago about this TV era.
Word Weaver Winner’s Profiles: First Place Winner Ellie Presner
Hi dear readers!
Here is an ‘author profile’ of me that Dan Alatorre put on his website, in the wake of my first-place win in the writing contest he hosted.
I’ll have more book news (hint: a second one is forthcoming) in the near future!
Meanwhile, here’s the link to my profile at Dan’s site.
your humble host
The winners of April’s Word Weaver Writing Contest share their thoughts on the contest, writing in general, and other stuff.
Our first place winner in our first contest, Ellie Presner wrote an amazing story – but also lives one. Born and raised in Montreal, Ellie still lives her life there “to the fullest” as a freelance writer, editor and proofreader in the land of “bonjour-hi!”
“My writing credits include ‘Taking Back the Night,’ which was nominated for a National Magazine Award. Originally published in Homemaker’s Magazine, it was anthologized in Essays: Patterns and Perspectivesby Oxford University Press (1992). Another of my stories, “First Kiss,” was anthologized in The Issues Collection: Gender Issues, McGraw Hill Ryerson (1993). My other credits include magazine articles in Menz, Home and School, The Write Place and Gasp; I’ve also been published numerous times in the Montreal Gazette, The Downtowner
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