If you look at my business card, you'll read that I list myself as a “vocalist” (yes, we have business cards too.) Though you may roll your eyes or snicker at my possibly pretentious use of the word “vocalist” as…
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Sunday in the Park with Waddling Whit (Uxbridge Cosmos Aug. 2013)
A few weeks ago as I was waddling uncomfortably about the park just down the street, scarfing down “beignets” (fancy Toronto timbits) by the handful and scoping out my community’s beautiful little farmer’s market, I ran into an old friend.…Read more
From Boot Scootin' to the Montana Turd Bird (Uxbridge Cosmos July 2013)
If someone asked me to write my coming-of-age screenplay, I’d write a movie about a road trip I took, or rather tagged along for, in the summer of 1996. I say “coming-of-age” as it marked the beginning of a change…
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Karma Parenting and the Eating Habits of a Picky Two-Year-Old (Uxbridge Cosmos Apr. 2013)
I am currently sitting in a sticky, tangled, Karmic web of my own doing. In my limited experience as a mother, I find that much of parenting has a…
A Cozy Getaway: Winnipeg in January! (Uxbridge Cosmos Jan. 2013)
I write to you from the Prairies this week! This past Sunday I landed in Winnipeg with the cast of Birdland Theatre’s “Assassins” for a three-week engagement with the Manitoba Theatre Centre. I brought with me my 21-month-old son, Coen…
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