Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
I taught a one-day workshop “Prose on the Road: The Art of Travel Writing” for the Sechelt, BC campus of Capilano University from 2008 to 2010.
The course offered engaging hands-on exercises, query tips, and a great bibliography. For more information, see Teaching.
I’ll be part of the Oct. 19 event “From Pain to Power,” a two-author reading celebration in West Vancouver, shared with my friend Roxanne Davies. She’s author of the narrative nonfiction book The Blue Riviera, a poignant tale of her mother’s death under mysterious circumstances. In her words: “This is also the story of a…
With special permission to carry 60 pounds of medical supplies, I set off for Cuba with a group of friends in October 2011. We were delighted to distribute these much-needed materials to small clinics in Cuba’s Trinidad region and to provide clothes and school supplies to local communities. Click here to read my Cuba Travel Article “From the Coast…
I wrote short items to accompany a photo essay of the challenges pregnant women face in Haiti. The piece is meant to increase public awareness of the activities of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. These photo-and-caption combinations were part of the content used in my course Photography and Writing for the Digital Age. A photographer and…
My travel essay “Bird Sanctuary,” which describes World Heritage Site Keoladeo National Park near Bharatpur, appears in the anthology Emails from India: Women Write Home. Published in the fall of 2013 by Seraphim Editions in Ontario, this book features the writing of 28 female contributors from across North America, along with several Europeans….
I really enjoyed being interviewed on Om By the Beach, a European podcast hosted by Josef Schinwald. Our one-hour discussion about Being on a Spiritual Path covered many areas, from Buddhist concepts of compassion, forgiveness, and no-self to writing about trauma, coaching others about writing about their trauma, and my memoir No Letter in Your…
Buses in India filled with chickens and goats and bomb warnings. A brawl in a bus in Kathmandu. Twenty-metre-long “camels”—double-trailer tractor loads—carry public transit riders in Havana, Cuba in the late 1990s. These are some of the first-person and news accounts I wrote in Transit Around the World, published in Coast Mountain BusLink’s Transit Exchange newsletter in April…