So I guess I forgot about that short creative non-fiction submission I made last year to the Portal Magazine (VIU). And I guess they liked it and put it in the magazine. And apparently there was a cash prize. Cool. I should look in to that.
I’ve never considered myself a particularly girly-girl but I think it’s time to own up to it.
My friend Kristen and I are fortunate enough to spend time on Hornby Island each summer. Our hosts are dog people. They’re the kind of dog people I don’t mind; they take care to train the more obnoxious behaviours out of their canine pals. I’m not a poet but one day on the beach Harry …
I actually found myself saying those words this morning: “I feel like our feng shui is constipated.” I was standing in our shared home office looking at a pile of boxes and styrofoam that had recently disgorged the guy’s new computer (the old one having succumbed to a virus and gone all blue screen of …
When one posts to the interwebs it’s natural to wonder where it all goes. There’s the obligatory audience: parentals, siblings, friends, but how many actual readers are out there?
Remember on school field trips how we used the buddy system? “Pick a buddy”, “hold hands with your buddy”, “walk with your buddy”, “where’s your buddy?” The idea was that there’s safety in numbers; things are perhaps less likely to go wrong, and if they do, at least someone’s got your back and can yell …
Sometimes people say nice things about me. It’s easy to forget. Too easy. But when you’re self-employed it’s pretty important to keep track of that sort of thing. See, when people say nice things it makes other people more likely to hire you, then those people may (will) be inclined to say nice things as …
Dear Susan, Ref: http://susanjuby.com/blog/ January 4, 2011 I enjoy your blog. And your tweets (@thejuby). And you know I enjoyed your creative nonfiction class at VIU because I told you so (see item #9 in your previous blog entry What 2011 Can Do For Me.) Now I look forward to enjoying your latest book, Woefield …
In Christmas 1997 Seinfeld debuted the new holiday Festivus in the episode The Strike. We adopted the holiday: Gabriel was spending his first Christmas in the Intensive Care Unit of BC’s Children’s Hospital and there was the airing of grievances, there were feats of strength–those were Gabriel’s. Today I was loading some clippings on to …
In a society so accustomed to instant gratification it’s hard to really anticipate anything be it a movie, TV series, or the latest incarnation of the McRib. In the music industry it’s become harder to build a real sense of anticipation for an artist’s release. A song will be rolled out and it’s good but …