28 April 2016

My radio host voice is in full roar. Radio has become a huge part of the way I tell stories these days. With a weekly book segment on Minelle Mahtani’s Sense of Place, I’ve had the pleasure of sitting around the table with amazing characters from the Vancouver literary scene. But, it got even more…

8 April 2016

Diversity in CanLit is an important topic that doesn’t often get discussed. A while back I jumped in to work with the team at Authors For Indies – a fun and festive celebration of independent bookstores across Canada and the authors who love them taking place on April 30 this year.  My book segment on Roundhouse Radio seemed the…

18 March 2016

Bullying is on my mind. Right now, I’m camped out at the dining room table. Rare March sunshine filters through the picture window. I am eyeballing my 5-year-old eating her favourite chicken noodle soup. Her life, well, it’s pretty straightforward. Kindergarten is like that. The 5-year-old universe is about coming to terms with the reality…

27 January 2016

MoriniSara Photography – http://sara-morini.deviantart.com[/caption] The perpetual twilight of the winter months on the wet coast make us all want to chase the sunshine to far away places. But, reality makes a continent-hopping adventure something left only to the imagination. I sat down with Carol Thorbes at Roundhouse Radio this morning to talk about how to take that…