Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
Nov. 26 and 27
I’ll be hosting a book table for Gracie’s Got a Secret at the Christmas Craft Fair at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt. I’ll be available from 9 a.m. on, both days. (On Saturday, Nov. 26, I’ll be leaving at 4:15 to get ready for my book launch that evening.)
Before xwu’p’a’lich Barbara Higgins was born in 1933, members of the shíshálh Nation were waiting for her to take on the role of Rememberer or Knowledge-keeper (her ancestral name means “she weaves”). Since then, she has voiced the importance of preserving Nature, her people’s land, language, and culture through her stories, poems, and activism….
I’ll be selling and signing my books on Saturday, Nov. 28 at the Roberts Creek Legion’s Christmas Craft Fair. You can choose from two anthologies, a photo history book, and my picture book Gracie’s Got a Secret. I’ll also have copies of the 20-minute DVD A New Way, which Ivy Miller and I created, my…
I was delighted to spend a half-hour yesterday interviewed by Matthew DiBiase, a Pennsylvania-based author, on his podcast The Packaged Tourist Show. When he first contacted me via LinkedIn, I assumed he was someone trying to market tourism packages, which is not my form of travel at all. But no, he explained that he likes…
Hello Everyone, The Burnaby Writers’ Society is sponsoring me as a featured writer on Zoom, Sunday, Sept. 19, starting at noon. I’ll be reading short excerpts from three sources: my essay “A Slow Good-bye,” a visit to the Taj Mahal from my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket (Guernica Editions 2023), and my picture book…
Discover how B.C.’s Sakinaw salmon were saved.What emergency visits did doctors make by boat on the coast in the 1980s? I’ll be doing a brief reading and presentation, with slide-show images, as part of the Sunshine Coast launch of Raincoast Chronicles 22: Saving Salmon, Sailors and Souls. This will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 4…
I will be on hand to sign copies of Vancouver’s Glory Years at Woods Showcase, 2 p.m., Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons, BC