Atwood is a great subject for my PicMix art because every one of her images on Google is a posed, professional author photo. That me...

There is so much about social media that pisses me off that I often don’t know where to start. I don’t even do Twitter. I’m not...

May as well enter the fray, as most other writers have in this country.  But how to deal with the maelstrom of "issues" that h...

No, really! And it's only because I found this cool picture of her. I didn't really need to do much to it. I have no artisti...

Like most writers in these parts, I’ve already written about the current Big Issue in CanLit, and don’t want to recap it. This is a ...

BLOGGER'S LAMENT.  I am absolutely exhausted. Just wiped out. I've been - somehow - don't know how -  didn't want to...

Margaret Atwood "can't write a novel," according to Norm Macdonald (AARON VINCENT ELKAIM / THE CANADIAN PRESS) By PE...

Dylan Thomas was once quoted as saying, “There is no gaiety so gay as the gaiety of grief.” Somehow I sort of know what that means, ...