The Rare Writer

  During the pandemic, I got into Dungeons and Dragons. I took a bunch of race/class/species quizzes, tried some story-based play until it g...

  Tonight, I met an astronaut! Col. Chris Hadfield was one of the guests of this Fall's edition of the Ottawa International Writers Fest...

  Sadly after nearly 94 years of life, the last 10 with Alzheimer's, I said my final goodbye to my Nanny, Donna Perkins (maternal grandm...

Old photo but, why not?  This has been the longest I've gone without posting since 2014, so I feel like readers deserve a bit of an upda...

  Blogtober is here once again and, this time, I even found a nice, appropriately spooky banner for it! I haven't been in the greatest o...

  Last weekend, it got REALLY hot in Ottawa! The heat lasted until Wednesday which meant that for much of the work week (which felt like an ...

  It's been roughly one month since I went to Toronto, and I have the urge to plan for another event, preferably something local (althou...