Hello Anne
I finished The Diary of Anne Frank a couple of weeks ago, and have been pondering it ever since. When it got selected for Book Club (we all put suggestions Continue Reading →
Author Archives: writehanded
O Canada
Let’s face it. Today wasn’t off to a good start. I slept in, it’s freaking cold (February my ass), and we’re in the paper again. But then (cue drum roll) Continue Reading →
The Time Traveler’s Wife
I’d love to say I hated it. So many people told me I would love it, and I usually rebel when that happens, and refuse to give it a chance. (ie Continue Reading →
2pm
Things that make my heart fall Getting a call from the vet to pick up Cleo’s ashes Getting a letter from Studylink saying they won’t pay for my study Putting Continue Reading →
In library, in life
I know it won’t be there. I know it, I know it, I know it, and yet there I go, and I turn down the aisle, and my heart leaps Continue Reading →
“This year I have two wishes…
“…to write and make money.” Katherine Mansfield, journal entry New Years Day, 1915. A woman after my own heart! Or perhaps I am after hers, considering she was here first. Continue Reading →
She does not go at all
In the last post I said that Cleo does not go quietly. On reflection, I think she will not go at all. I am lucky because her memory will always Continue Reading →
She will not go quietly
Apologies for not posting. I haven’t felt up to much. Last week my cat Cleo passed away. Her death was unexpected and unexplained. She was with me since she was Continue Reading →
Occupation: Poet
When I die (or, if I dare hope, before) I want to have a Wikipedia entry like James K Baxter’s. Specifically, I want that tiny little line on the right-hand Continue Reading →
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Best things: The narrative style, the alternative endings, the narrator as a mustachioed renegade character Worst things: 100 pages too long, and Sarah. She should’ve turfed herself off the Cobb Continue Reading →