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Wood carver Derek Georgeson in ch’atlich (Sechelt, BC, Canada) creates stunning cedar masks, poles, and furniture. This summer, he and his cedar-weaver wife Shyanne (“Shy”) Watters will appear on Coastal Carvings, a documentary series on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
Find out more about Derek and see his art in my profile of him in the summer 2024 issue of Sunshine Coast Life Magazine.
It was a delight to profile Jessica Silvey, who’s shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) with the ancestral name Kwahama Kwatleematt, and has been weaving cedar baskets, hats, and décor for more than 30 years. I profiled her, the owner of Red Cedar Woman studio, as the cover story for the winter 2021 issue of…
MW Book Publishing of Garden Bay, BC will be releasing my first children’s book, Gracie’s Got a Secret, in the fall of 2011. In Gracie’s Got a Secret, an impatient and feisty little goldfish named Gracie escapes her fishbowl and leaves her family, determined to share a secret with the outside world. Along the way,…
I’ll present 20 of my photographs, with 20 seconds of story-telling for each one, as part of a Pecha Kucha night in Gibsons, BC at the Arts Building on South Fletcher (on the corner beside the library). Eleven different presenters will be sharing their images, starting at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10. You can find…
I was delighted to interview author and poet Deena Metzger for a feature in the winter 1996 issue of Herizons, Canada’s feminist magazine. Click this Deena Metzger link to read my feature The Power of Writing: A Workshop with Deena Metzger. Since then, I’ve met Deena three more times at different U.S. conferences over the…
Jamie Dean, host of Toronto’s radio station Indie Love, will be interviewing me live at 5:30 p.m. PST. We’ll be discussing the 2010 Winter Olympics & Paralympics in Vancouver, the event’s impact on Vancouver and the Downtown Eastside, and my blog coverage.
I am teaching an 8-week, online creative nonfiction class Writing From Pain to Power in the spring of 2022 through the University of King’s College in Halifax. My students are from across the country, writing about real-life traumas in their lives. Most are hoping to publish a memoir or essays. Using a trauma-informed approach, we…