Tricia Dower is coming to Calgary to read from her new book Silent Girl. She’ll be at McNally Robinson downtown on May 29th and the reading starts at 7pm. I’m so excited to go and hear Tricia read. I ‘met’ her online through a writer’s forum and have enjoyed her work immensely so meeting her [...]

This is late for Mother’s Day I know, but the words are for my mother nonetheless. This is part of a series of flash fiction pieces I’m working on. I hope you enjoy it Mom. Empathy – A truthby H.E.Eigler I had no idea she could be struck down like any other person, any normalperson [...]

I don’t normally write about these kinds of things but now that I’m raising a little girl, I tend to see things a little differently. Earlier I was watching American Idol, yes, you heard me right and I am a little ashamed so just let it go alright? So I’m watching TV and this Extra [...]

Danielle over at New Mommy Rant just bestowed this award of awesomeness on me. It came along with a Meme and so I pass this award and Meme onto: Jessica of Babyhoot who taught me you can make cupcakes in ice cream cones. Sharon of Field Notes because her poetry is amazing and she knits [...]

You may have read about how we were shopping for a minivan. Well,here she is! What do you think? We went with the 2005 Kia Sedona, mostly because of the safety ratings but there are lots of other things I like about it too. The Kia has bunches of get up and go. I find [...]