A Gift for You

Since you follow my blog, you know I write. I have published several books.

            Fourteen Cups (2006) is a collection of short stories each about a cuppa coffee long and of course there are 14 stories – sorry they are sold out.

            Wandering Backward (2010) a glimpse backward to small town Ontario in 1944/45 is written in creative memoir style. What is that you ask? It simply means I wrote it as if it happened but it is indeed creative memory featuring fictitious characters with the exception of myself and my immediate family. Yes, some of the stories actually happened, others didn’t – I leave it to the reader to decide which is which. I wrote it to capture the little things that might be forgotten. Wandering Backwards is available through http://www.gsph.com/.

            Snow Business (2011) is a children’s book written in rhythm and rhyme for children ages 2-7. A moose and a goose have a very different view on what to do with snow. Snow Business is available on http://www.amazon.com/

            I’d love to sell books but that is not why I’m writing this blog today. I started my writing career by selling short stories to various magazines, newspapers and anthologies like Chicken Soup for the Soul (Chicken soup for the Soul Grandmothers and Chicken Soup for the Soul O Canada)(available almost everywhere). The reason I’m writing today is to tell you that I want to share a short story with you for FREE.

            Because you take an interest in my scribblings through my blog, I thought you deserved to receive a gift. As soon as you become a follower on my blog, I will send a story to your email address absolutely FREE. Enjoy my gift to you and maybe there will be more to come.

A dreary day

April 4, 2012

Today is the kind of day that deceives you. The thermometer says that the temperature is tolerable and speaks of spring awakening. It is ten degrees above freezing - not that one would notice. I am hunkered beneath a cozy throw, with the fireplace glowing and I’m about to pour a glass of wine and watch a soppy movie. That is what one does on a bone chilling day in Canada, or anywhere else for that matter. In deference to the dreary skies and the high winds and my poor arthritic bones, I’m about to waste the rest of my day. Now, mind you, I did earn this somewhat, I wasn’t a complete slacker today. I did my usual morning exercises and took a 20 minute brisk walk, vacuumed and cleaned the bathroom so I have no guilt feeling what-so-ever. As to choice of movie, I’m leaning toward An Affair to Remember, can’t get much soppier than that.

You see, I’m definitely a sunshine girl, my energy levels lift and fall as the sun shines or doesn’t. So when the promise of warm days lie ahead and sunsets are stretching into the evening hours, I bid farewell to seasonal programming and look longingly at the patch of earth waiting for me to be energized by long sunny days. Mind you, not all creatures find sunshine brings them to life. Check out our cats in the sun.