Do You Remember Colouring with Coloured Pencils?
For many of us, drawing with coloured pencils was a right of passage when we were young. Some of us braved that blank white sheet of paper and did our own […]
Category Archives: Just Stories
Do Objects absorb Evil Energy?
With Halloween just around the corner I thought I would share a story I read in a magazine some years back about how antiques absorb energy. It still gives me […]
Textiles as Fine Art
About a year ago I was teaching a course called “Building a Career as a Visual Artist” for the U of A’s fine arts certificate program when two students began […]
Do You Remember these Candies?
Nostalgia in my life is not relegated only to my passion for old houses but what I eat too. Last month our community held its annual Highlandia festival with plenty […]
Has your Chicken Written to you Lately?
Some have suggested (in a nice way) that I have a strange sense of humour, so when my friend told me she couldn’t go for our weekly walk because she […]
Reconnecting with the Artist Within
Life has a way of getting in the way of doing things that feed the soul. Most of us rarely take the time to just sit and ponder about where […]
Infill Woes, again
Citizens, Unite! Are your neighbourhoods feeling the pressure of infill building? Are our communities being sold to the highest bidder – to whomever can build the largest house on the […]
“Guillaume” will live on
Many thanks to those of you who responded when I asked for an opinion on whether I should keep Guillaume as the name of a character in my book set […]
Can’t speak French? Great – I’d like your Opinion
I have been hard at work on the second draft of my novel I started last winter. I was talking about the book to a French-speaking friend who grew up […]
The Art of Carmen Gonzalez
One of the things I am most proud of as an instructor is the success of my students, and one such person is Carmen Gonzalez. A graduate of the University […]
