Even if you don’t call yourself a writer you’ve written. An essay, a poem, a tweet or a status update on Facebook, maybe a comment or two in reply to one.  And everything is stored online for practically the world to see – with or without privacy settings that make it impossible for your mother [...]

The obvious catch to me is the writer isn’t making anything for each book that is read and as an author this troubles me for a few reasons. The main being obvious – I want to get paid, the second is – I want to support an author financially to promote and improve book sales, [...]

Are you too tired to think? Have the sniffles A lunch date? Books to read? We all do. At one time or another we could fill a book with excuses as to why we didn’t accomplish what we wanted to. I was about to succumb to life and the restriction of time permitted to blog [...]

Being Canadian is important to me for so many reasons, one of which being January 27th as it’s a day we mark to celebrate literacy and all it’s worth. Being a writer of course I need readers so celebrate the essence of words and the importance of our education system in supporting ensuring a great [...]

Like Sidney Crosby to hockey, Stephen King to best selling books and James Cameron to incredible movies, most of us have a passion for something but it’s not enough to find it, a lot of us have to live it. And if we’re told we can’t due to a concussion, disability, etc it can be [...]

Every farm needs three things to grow into a bountiful being, even my novel Arm Farm needed the seed, water and sunlight to blossom into sinewy arms which grew cases and possible case solvers. Just as each flower, animal and vegetable grow into something of value, worth and substance, Arm Farm needed all three elements [...]

Karma by any other name sounds complicated but it all comes down to ensuring that you’re doing something good for the sake of doing something good. There’s been a debate, for years, in my head and in the world trying to decide if karma is actually something that exists and, if so, how long does [...]

Often time pride and self worth gets in our way and we end of making excuses or blaming others for not being able to achieve greatness as quickly as we’d like. We are the hamster in the wheel, the mermaid swimming land and eventually a sinking ship because we don’t stop to think for a [...]

Sorry this post is so late, taking care of some things for me all day and now it’s your turn. Lately I’ve been dealing with some extremely selfish people and although it can be humourous at times it is mostly just irritating. I’m hoping some of them read this but I also know they are [...]

UPDATE: Moncton just voted 7-3 to RID our water of this disgusting ingredient. Please go to CTV to vote and show your support in this wonderful decision. The voting box is about half way down the page on the right and just requires you to click the circle. 1) Rats given one part per million [...]