I’ve been using the reference texts produced by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglise for longer than I can remember. Once they introduced One Stop…
Edited article, originally published in Crime Scene Magazine, A Sisters in Crime Toronto Chapter Publication I’ve read many series featuring…
In 2000, once we realized that the new century wasn’t going to destroy all of our technology, I decided that I wanted to learn to play a musical…
Suspended over Gull Lake is a long cedar dock that juts away from the moss-filmed rocky shoulders of the shore. A scarred wooden rowboat is trussed…
I love bacon. Not the pale, store-bought, watery then brittle-when-cooked nitrate stuffed strips, but the old-fashioned kind that smells like meat…
The waiter at Bibi’s Brunch & Lunch was clad in regulation white shirt, black pants and Doc Martens. A spotless white cook’s apron was wrapped…
Types of Writing “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the things we need most in the world.” Philip Pullman Let’s start…
The last few months, I’ve been perfecting my recipe for gravlax, that tasty, cool, marinated salmon half that is buttery-rich on the tongue. Until…
Before they invented big-screen televisions and botulism was something you never wanted to find in your food, never mind inject into your wrinkles,…
On a rainy Friday evening the following June, Anthony announced he was going away for a few days. “Don’t worry. I’ll be back with a surprise. I…
This story begins with a lie. In Latin, mostly. With a bit of English and some franglais thrown in for the pew-fillers seeking refuge from the frigid…
The most sobering part of our trip was the day-long tour to the Joint Security Area separating the Republic of Korea from North Korea along the…
How can I leave him? Let me count the ways. It is perhaps ironic that I would bastardize a love poem when thinking about a leave poem, but what…
As our flight to Santiago was coming in for a landing the flight attendant told us about the items we were not allowed to bring into Chile: edible…
A long time coming, this trip to Chile and Argentina. Of course, Hub had visited in the 70s on business, when the political situation was chaotic and…
