Addiction

I think I’m just beginning to understand how addictive a person can be. How you can want nothing more than spending every moment in their presence. How their every word is a silken caress on your skin. How hours fly by in mere mortal minutes, never thinking of eternity, never thinking of the past, for [...]

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A beautiful day

Edmonton in the summer can be a magical place. Last night I went with a group of girlfriends out to our favourite restaurant, Japanese Village. It rocked as always – good food, and good company. From there four of us made our way to Whyte Avenue and the Fringe Festival. A friend of a friend’s [...]

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Revenant Day 4 – Excerpt

From my writing on Aug. 20 (day 4): Rachel grinned. “Come here, you goof. Wash your hands.” Julia got up and washed her hands, her skin tingling in anticipation. This was one of her favourite things, and always reminded her of the very first time they cooked together. It had been a lesson in stuffing [...]

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Third rewrite of Revenant

I’ve set a rather ambitious goal for myself. I want to completely rewrite Revenant for the third time in 30 days. Some brief history: I wrote the first draft of Revenant as part of NaNoWriMo, which meant I wrote 50,236 words in 30 days (roughly 1667 words per day). When I finished, I gave it [...]

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Gratitude

I’m very blessed, you know? Of the many things I’ve learned over the past few years, one is how to stop. It is so easy to get all frenetic with the insane pace of life. They call it a rat race, and I refuse to be the rat. So even while my life, especially at [...]

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The Plunge

I bought a new hat, and I had the Chinese symbol for “courage” put on it. And I took that hat to the Western Canadian Pride Festival – a gay campout in Blackfalds over the August long weekend, where I didn’t know a single soul and I was going alone. I wanted to try out [...]

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