Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
Control Freak. Little Miss Perfect. Inner Bitch. Some parts of ourselves are hard to love, but have you ever thought that they’re here to help? Find out how through fun writing exercises and a short introduction to the power of the SoulCollage® process.
Wheatberries Bakery, 818 Gibsons Way, Gibsons, BC, 6 – 8 p.m. By donation. All but 1% of the proceeds will go to provide school supplies and desks for 100 children in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
I enjoyed introducing SoulCollage® Jan. 27 to a group of job placement students at M. Magas and Associates, an employment agency in Sechelt, BC. We did a guided visualization, identified their respective dream job, and discussed accountability, victimhood and what archetypal influences might resonate with them. I appreciated their openness and willingness to share what…
I’ll be retracing Ernest Hemingway’s steps in Pamplona, Spain, with tales of his favourite haunts, at Gibsons Public Library on Wednesday, July 16. I’ll give a five-minute reading of my blog post, written as part of my travel series on walking the Camino de Santiago. (I will be augmenting these into a book later.) My short presentation is part…
Want to know what hospice has done on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast for the past 30 years? Come to an Oct. 5 event in Sechelt and see the video that I wrote, produced, and directed called “Legacy of Love: 30 Years of Compassionate Care on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, 1987 – 2017.” The seven-minute documentary…
I’m lucky that my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket recently appeared on air on the book shelf of Keith Baldrey, Global TV’s bureau chief in Victoria, BC. Keith tells me that this means a viewership of approximately 400,000. What great free promotion! Each year, Keith gets hundreds of books sent to him from publishers…
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.
It was a pleasure to profile activist filmmaker Liz Marshall for the spring 2024 issue of Sunshine Coast Life magazine. As a director, she collaborated with three Indigenous multimedia creators — Kawaya7 Ecko Aleck of the Nlaka’pamux Nation (Lytton, BC), Kwamanchi Alfonso Salinas of the shíshálh Nation and Charlene SanJenko of Splatsin of the Secwépemc…