The Glass Character
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Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Thursday, September 5, 2024

A rotten thing happened to me at the hair salon (so I wrote this)

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  (I wrote this after a miserable experience at a salon my husband and I have been going to for more than two years. The treatment was rude,...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Internet ambush: the poison pill

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(This started off life as a journal entry, but as it evolved I realized this is something I really need to post. It deals with a subtle...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Why is it still OK to mock mental illness?

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This is extremely painful for me to write, but I’ll try. Today I saw a YouTube video by a very entertaining duo of filmmakers who make...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Fair game: those old family photos on the internet

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Blogging is an organic process, like all serious writing. (Serious! As 3/4 of this blog is satire, how can I say that? But satire is pe...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Jian Ghomeshi: a sorry son-of-a-bitch

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(From today's Globe and Mail) Editor’s note: This is a statement delivered by Kathryn Borel, whose allegations against former CBC ...
Friday, April 8, 2016

When the truth comes home

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All week my thoughts have been straying. The weather has been glorious, and yesterday we took a sort of tour of the kwanzan cherry tr...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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