If you’re not going to be able to join me at the Owen Sound Chapters on Saturday, November 17, please book your calendar for: Chapters, Stone Road Mall 435 Stone Road Guelph, Ontario 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. I’ll be signing copies of Shadow Song and Recipes of a Dumb Housewife. See you there!
I’ve known Alix since she was about seven years old. She and my daughter, Kelly, were friends. Still are. Very good friends. The were competitive, loyal, a buffer for each other through the absurdities and cruelties of elementary and secondary school.Alix is a grown woman now, accomplished, bi-lingual, intelligent, caring and a lovely, gentle soul who often thinks of others over herself. In recent years she endured, with her parents, her father’s debilitating wait for…
You are all welcome to come join me at: ChaptersHeritage Place1350 – 16th Street EastOwen Sound, Ontario Saturday, November 17, 2007, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. I’ll be signing books and available to answer questions.
It isn’t easy, you know. Getting it right, that is. And even when you do you start second-guessing yourself, finding some minor flaw here, something to tweak there, and sooner or later you’re wondering why on earth you thought that ‘thing’ — whatever that thing is — just simply isn’t good enough for anyone to see. Or at least that’s how my universe unfolds. The perpetual edit. For now, however, I think I have Version…
As usual, it would seem I’m in a minority with this romantic tale of Chiyo-become-Sayuri, the peasant girl who became geisha.Set amid the backdrop of Depression Era and World War II Japan, the story takes you from Chiyo’s fishing village, peasant beginnings to the opulent, harsh and at the same time frivolous world of Gion, where Chiyo transforms into a highly trained geisha known as Sayuri, and from there into the bitterly harsh realities of…