Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process Susan G. Wooldridge ISBN 978-0-307-34148-8 There is so much ripe and delicious food to be thankful for at harvest time. What Susan Wooldridge writes about in Foolsgold is a type of life harvesting. She collects, savours and integrates memories of her husband and the end […]
Author Archives: Mary Ann Moore
Book Review: The Writer’s Toolbox
The Writer’s Toolbox is ideal for inspiring poetry, prose, screenplays and novels as it offers a jump-start into creativity. Even without those goals in mind, the Toolbox is just plain fun for storytelling with friends and family. Pick one of the FS sticks – that stands for "First Sentence" – and begin. The wooden stick, […]
Book Review: Around One More Point
Exploring, beachcombing, fishing or waiting for a break in the weather, Mary Gazetas has paddled the west coast for almost 30 summers. Each year, when it’s "time for the women to go to sea", Mary heads out with her twin sister Phoebe and a group of women that may include daughters, other relatives and friends. […]
Book Review: Home and Away
Anny Scoones makes her home at Glamorgan Farm, one of Vancouver Island’s original farmsteads. There she holds literary fundraisers, raises livestock including rare Gloucester Old Spot pigs, a woolly Russian Bashkir Curling horse, and Naked Neck hens, a rare breed that originated in Hungary. The farm, as Scoones writes in her introduction, "in its gentle […]