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Mary Oliver 1935-2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1548082566448-60GFHABQW6KXJOT4FGCY/screen_shot_2019-01-17_at_2.51.49_pm.png Blog - What Should You Do With Your Days? https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/wild-geese https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2019/1/7/withstanding-the-storms monthly 0.5 2019-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1546908312009-3U3ULF99HJSRL4PBSSTC/New+Jersey+Pine+Barrens+photo+by+Woodenest+%28Paige%29 Blog - Withstanding Storms Read Goodreads’ excellent Blurb about the novel “Unsheltered” here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1546910537919-6NAKAVF56IBKNEJRV5ZA/Screen+Shot+2019-01-07+at+8.16.15+PM.png Blog - Withstanding Storms Tjaltje Dykstra (nee Hilverda) April 1931-December 2018 Thanks for the stories, Gramma. 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Backyard party as captured by the uber talented Abolfazl Bayat @https://www.instagram.com/abolfazl.bayat.new/ https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/10/5/carpe-diem-a-thanksgiving-post monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538784993053-1Y6APZYTIVP54MVSVP1A/2018 Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538784206381-V1CFHOXZWQBK5H3IIQ6Q/The+Beaver+Valley Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post The Beautiful Beaver Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538785161711-P2AMDFPMHNODFR0JESY9/Wagon+Ride Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post Wagon ride https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538784370301-ETHR8SKTBY6BHQ00M3UY/Me+%26+my+bros+circa+1989 Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post Me and my bros circa 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538785079916-FZR65D1LFSPQTW5J9M3P/Red+Astrachan Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post Wedding Tree https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538785629821-2F1C3CZV1ET5CF8306DC/Thanksgiving Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post Thanksgiving https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538785293783-0O1TKMWSH2J85WGJ489X/Carpe+Diem Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post Carpe Diem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538785486305-8R61W0MQBCSD1DNX4X9Y/These+four+walls Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post These four walls… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1538785717137-2H49TAKFQGLROA4UAAT5/Garden+%26+Driving+Shed Blog - Carpe Diem - A Thanksgiving Post https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/9/25/youve-got-a-season-ticket-to-my-heart monthly 0.5 2018-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1537925459885-KAT8HJGWHM3T2000HYLS/images-4.jpeg Blog - You've Got a Season Ticket to My Heart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1537924139340-RDR5CIF8IH9XUROH1F4O/The+bike Blog - You've Got a Season Ticket to My Heart The bike! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1537924937008-EMIF6W7DE5H5IPSNOR45/images-3.jpeg Blog - You've Got a Season Ticket to My Heart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1537924482296-E9SWRPQVN6LSM4G1UGGY/Adventure Blog - You've Got a Season Ticket to My Heart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1537911213789-RMX8JG3JCWQ5TF7SB08B/Grace+%26+Frankie Blog - You've Got a Season Ticket to My Heart Grace & Frankie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1537923806562-3V3WFVI9TYSSKYQ7VH0Q/Me+%26+Frankie Blog - You've Got a Season Ticket to My Heart Our first storytelling event in Hamilton https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/8/30/skip-frosh-week-then-some monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1535635108071-0B4ALTRLCIQ15OLJCP5D/o.jpg Blog - Skip Frosh Week (& Then Some) A quick trip to Halifax this summer opened my eyes to just how young and poor previous generations of dreamers were. Imagine the ways young people might understand their origins and appreciate Canada if they spend a few months working at a modern-day Pier 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1535636219544-2PTC9W5J2AWFCRGLM84S/Holten Blog - Skip Frosh Week (& Then Some) Holten Cemetery, NL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1535637914658-2L3T185505C8FJPSAX5A/Pikanjicum Blog - Skip Frosh Week (& Then Some) new hope bikes pikanjicum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1535634853004-NUEQ00VZ9J6XKHYBX99P/BC+Wildfires+2018 Blog - Skip Frosh Week (& Then Some) How do you care about a forest fire across the country if you’ve never smelled smoke? How do you care about an oil slick on the ocean if you’ve never been out on a boat with a fisherman? How do you care about what NAFTA means for dairy farmers if you’ve never milked a cow or thought twice about where your food comes from? How do you care about newcomers finding housing if you’ve never cold-called a hundred landlords to see if any of them will take a risk on a family that looks and sounds different from them? I'm telling you, Frosh Week isn't going to give us the citizens Canada needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1535635893932-2LXMR0JWG08RVTT4KEOS/Summer+projects Blog - Skip Frosh Week (& Then Some) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1535635763927-ZSGUCCX0N4ITG10CAVPS/campfire Blog - Skip Frosh Week (& Then Some) https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/7/5/on-setting-amsterdam-westerbork-a-castle-moat-included monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530798713839-CY9MJSZVH5AQ5TKIYHKD/Huis+Bergh.jpg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) Close to S'heerenberg, near the German border https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530794446169-S2ZUX1GN85L3OIIQVEXX/Amsterdam-Central-Station-Centraal-Station.jpg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) Photo credit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530796103600-PY9PDQ20880M16GOVHSG/IMG_4255.JPG Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) The Historic Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530796391411-3L48800B9SIAA97BU2KG/waterlooplein.jpg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) Then... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530796424825-C6A948ISF36H5AR9DNV0/28390322939_fccb21d93e_b.jpg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) Now....Photo credit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530797063657-Q88CAVPHEDM0O26YOVFB/miserables_lelouch_09.jpg%7Eoriginal.jpeg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) I've seen Claude Lelouche's version of Les Miserables many, many times and continue to be inspired by the mash-up of Hugo's classic set in Nazi-occupied France. The character of Andre Ziman, portrayed by Michel Boujenah, continues to inspire my own character-building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530797415999-DKA9MY4V951J6CFVNROJ/I24HLj_web.jpg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) Camp Westerbork circa 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530797557937-1FFYAN6JJ1E2RBZII77I/125056-004-25B404DE.jpg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) It was disheartening to see many stars missing from these bricks and the entire monument covered with dirt and gravel and organic debris. The Canadian cemetery in Holten, by contrast, is immaculate. I suppose it says something about how we feel about the victims of history and the heroes of history. I'm still ruminating on that one... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530797485482-NYBOWDK7NW5BG5YV7GT7/4154170910003558.jpg Blog - On Setting: Amsterdam, Westerbork & a Storybook Castle (Moat Included) Westerbork now. https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/7/4/my-story-begins-may-10th-1940-or-at-least-thats-what-it-feels-like monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530719509490-LGESOLUJ39EUVQOB7QFK/IMG_2165.JPG Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) Don't bring your grandkids a wooden tulip, bring them a graphic novel. Travel should be about building empathy, joining a conversation, learning the stories. https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/museum/en/visitorinformation/museumshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530718258697-Y57UCBSRVHB058DL2ZZ4/thumb_IMG_1918_1024.jpg Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530717319743-DKJ6QY11MJRPKT9PQXAV/Screen+Shot+2018-06-26+at+10.30.53+AM.png Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530719153246-SI2G69JCWP9AR2Y7DJCD/IMG_2167.JPG Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) #amwriting & finding inspiration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530719257746-FU8U6CWL86UEYOSY1B97/IMG_2168.JPG Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) So many unexpected twists and turns. So many stories to ponder. I'm grateful for the anecdotes this museum has so artfully and carefully curated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530723578218-0J6KHY1GVHAJFYPLR26T/IMG_1981.JPG Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) And here's to the fun parts of researching historical fiction! To seeing all this in print one day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530719032480-OHV0Y6XTFX6IT19V2FDF/IMG_2166.JPG Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) My kids devoured this book. Now when I tell them a story, they correct me if I leave out important details. By this I mean, if I say "taken to a camp", they say: "murdered." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530723295464-J61G8UO3QIIH6ZLA3ZYV/IMG_E1765.JPG Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) Here's what trying to write truth in fiction looks like right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530716985203-ORYCOFZK7RERSCIF3KIU/IMG_2161.JPG Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1530718804424-ITGQYZV996MSKNO5KJ2W/thumb_IMG_2162_1024.jpg Blog - My Story Begins May 10th, 1940 (Or, At Least, That's What it Feels Like) Heading to Amsterdam? I highly recommend a visit here. Especially if you've already read Monica Hesse's YA debut, The Girl in the Blue Coat. https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/6/5/june-2018 monthly 0.5 2018-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1528234003481-GJJPRLM1HZKCY619RTML/34345916_10156131313730901_7679466027066851328_n.jpg Blog - Let Them Eat Cake Jen's fabulous creation that captures the world of New Hope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1528234148864-OV58M6WI7Q9Z4VQLLW9X/July+2012+008.JPG Blog - Let Them Eat Cake Circa 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1528233048999-463DTMR0IN86B04JCYZN/il_570xN.1280302368_5b04.jpg Blog - Let Them Eat Cake Essential, right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1528233307789-NSZJO3TVF6ZEX4BN2PR4/IMG_1487.JPG Blog - Let Them Eat Cake The Sweater. https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/4/26/a-time-to-play monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1524755506764-JE5YUWQIH92UYDS6Y17O/thumb_IMG_1514_1024.jpg Blog - A Time to Play I found this tourism advertisement in a folder of drafts of Stuart McLean's story "Holland". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1524753175688-9MXKLUGNHOWJXHCNF8VL/Photo+on+2018-04-25+at+1.34+PM.jpg Blog - A Time to Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1524753685987-UJBQLDMOVEQ15C5EPH7Z/thumb_IMG_1516_1024.jpg Blog - A Time to Play I love seeing the process between editor (Meg Masters) and author that resulted in such a perfect ending to a beloved story about mothers and sons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1524753114355-7BT8AKO742YVWXN4SDSZ/Screen+Shot+2017-07-04+at+11.24.42+AM.png Blog - A Time to Play Elspeet en Omstreken The Netherlands... my inspiration for Lady Astrid's Manor House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1524753811028-SO8ZAR0W87V290CRP1K3/HRGettyImages-515117997-copy.jpg Blog - A Time to Play Mendelson Joe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1524755037063-T66Z9PAF8H46DSJV7DN9/images.jpeg Blog - A Time to Play https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/3/29/rainy-day-blues monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1522369220877-3CCYA9Q4AA3HGULI6D0H/Hannah%27s+Book%21 Blog - Rainy Day Blues Hannah Mary McKinnon lives in Oakville. Support your local bookstore and pick up a copy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1522368007659-979OK64MC8Y8W2THC73V/You%27ve+Got+Mail Blog - Rainy Day Blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1522369040520-RSVCVW6MTAADLZHFOYJG/Bryan+Prince+Westdale Blog - Rainy Day Blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1522368328051-OT9UHJ60B163T1XCQJB0/images.jpeg Blog - Rainy Day Blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1522367083997-ZM4MZPX7R426II1O4YEM/Bryan+Prince+%28Wesley+W.+Bates%3F%29 Blog - Rainy Day Blues I love wood engravings and I believe this image is the work of the wonderful Wesley W. Bates. https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/3/7/love-tax monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1520517318562-Q1XED2DPECWN7EZKIPOJ/Unknown-1.jpeg Blog - Paying the Love Tax https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1520518053598-AYJYHP87K66OKNZK5LRB/10173614_10152064712301372_1963870039171405014_n.jpg Blog - Paying the Love Tax New Hope Church, in partnership with Arocha, cares for this little spit of land between the highway and the steel mills. We've spent a few Sundays over the years ripping out invasive species and planting trees. It's not your typical support group, but it's one way to see hope this side of heaven. Join us this spring for our annual outing. Date t.b.a https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1520535493470-9X03RHUGPET0VP35HTZQ/IMG_9260%2B%281%29.jpg Blog - Paying the Love Tax My friend Sara is a writer and disabilities advocate in the Niagara region. She speaks and writes eloquently on faith, parenting and the daily battle to find joy in all things in the midst of living grief. (Check out more here) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1520444842359-EHGF6D88PIRKXOB2GJ2W/ring_of_grief.jpg Blog - Paying the Love Tax I learned about the ring theory several years ago, and it has given me a helpful framework for understanding what NOT to say or do when tragedy strikes. Very much worth a read! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1520515276116-T8EU8VVK0VG5ZIMNMRFN/images.jpeg Blog - Paying the Love Tax https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1520515340063-UDC93LPJ46337DRZF63A/cropped-leanne-friesen13.jpg Blog - Paying the Love Tax This inspiring lady pastors a church on the mountain and shows up all the time with grace and humility. When she doesn't, she blogs about it. And she has a lot of wise words about the ways grief shapes us. https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/2/14/frozen-burned-toothless-tales-from-the-valentines-front-lines monthly 0.5 2023-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1518643874650-ASUL8JACDQ784N2I264D/Charlie+Brown+Bouquet...+Sorry%21 Blog - Frozen, Burned & Toothless: Tales from the Valentine's Front-lines I'm sorry if you got this bouquet... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1518644038885-71J65VPD2FLNI9VVKOLK/Me+%26+my+gal+making%27+boxes+like+a+boss%21 Blog - Frozen, Burned & Toothless: Tales from the Valentine's Front-lines Me & my gal making boxes like a boss! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1518644174908-NMHA6VTT1I8XN11IWD7F/This+thing Blog - Frozen, Burned & Toothless: Tales from the Valentine's Front-lines I thought I'd heard it all... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1518642819192-ER6CYILKCR85XV77LGIG/10+years+later Blog - Frozen, Burned & Toothless: Tales from the Valentine's Front-lines A while ago I wrote a post about my day-job. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes peak into my husband’s floral-fulfillment business & some memories of the early days. At Valentine’s Day, it’s all about getting the flowers there on time. (Or not.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1518643168813-PF8BF49O8Z07TYI1QC1M/The+Optimist+%26+Pink+Suit+Girl Blog - Frozen, Burned & Toothless: Tales from the Valentine's Front-lines This was my desk circa 2008. Very dusty, cluttered and cold. Now I have a sweet desk & this kid steals all my pens. :) https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2018/1/20/grocery-cart-story-collector-1 monthly 0.5 2018-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1516490700402-JCHOH2L6GPTKXLADCX5X/les+mmiserables.jpg Blog - Grocery Cart (& Story) Collector https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1516490657233-V1PTHR2YQZQ0V6J20AHI/La+Gloire+de+MOn+pere.jpg Blog - Grocery Cart (& Story) Collector https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1516490571963-U0XAUZ2SE9JY14BGWVWW/shopping-cart-in-snow.jpg Blog - Grocery Cart (& Story) Collector This story begins with a grocery cart... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1516491177593-V459XYPO9V0ZJFYZWN2E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Grocery Cart (& Story) Collector https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1516491466674-T0GGJ2DGDDDY02750BGS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Grocery Cart (& Story) Collector Thanks to the amazing students at this school, close to my heart, for giving me something to write about. You are the best. https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2017/11/14/if-you-want-to-be-loved-get-a-dog-and-other-great-advice-on-writing monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1513634321995-WJTMAVSHR4KCWW5UPGBM/Edna.png Blog - If you want to be loved, get a dog (and other great advice on writing) A writer I admire, who may have fallen into obscurity, but who holds a special spot in my heart. http://rrj.ca/the-writer-who-really-schmecked-2/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1513626677523-9XQCHDTDU50L4FDLS10M/editing+to+find+the+story.jpg Blog - If you want to be loved, get a dog (and other great advice on writing) “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you re-write, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.” – John Gould, as told to writer Stephen King https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1513634630825-R1KS3KU970RUPMSQYQTV/Beauty+in+darkness Blog - If you want to be loved, get a dog (and other great advice on writing) Thanks for keeping it real Charles Schultz. We miss you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1513626109200-5N79AODHD8M33S30GFI0/E.L.Docotrow.jpg Blog - If you want to be loved, get a dog (and other great advice on writing) “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” E.L. Doctorow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1510684974999-5PD9EO2GT8YI8W3QIC3F/snoopy+rejection.jpg Blog - If you want to be loved, get a dog (and other great advice on writing) Much thanks to Brian Henry for the levity and encouragement that comes into my inbox each week via the helpful blog Quick Brown Fox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1513626011081-AJFWO43UP5LRT06AOEWL/hemingway+by+Ryan+Sheffield.png Blog - If you want to be loved, get a dog (and other great advice on writing) Portrait of Hemingway by artist Ryan Sheffield. I'm not a big Hemingway fan (a bit too 20th century misogynist for my taste) but I do enjoy the following quote... https://www.lenascholman.com/blog/2017/10/27/a-canlit-metoo-shortlist monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1509126203098-ODECUIC7M2JIYQWDQEDB/toni-morrison-quote1.png Blog - Hope for #metoo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1520516804830-D438ULC2C44P0IFLJZ4F/33413128.jpg Blog - Hope for #metoo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1509124518771-OLQXMWBDDIJHK53GYYO1/Women+Exposition+by+Annie+Leibovitz Blog - Hope for #metoo Annie Leibovitz's exposition "Women" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1509123169574-69KG6LJJTI7SYEEJIGWO/Ragged+Company Blog - Hope for #metoo We lost a good one when we lost Richard Wagamese earlier this year. In fact, it's been a brutal year for losing Canadian storytellers. This story seared into my mind so many images, both beautiful and painful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1509123052818-PR1V9YJA651GJ7WKT0UH/Annabel.jpg Blog - Hope for #metoo Annabel by Kathleen Winters 2010 House of Anansi Fiction Read a review here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1509121337532-0CPFF56DLPF93G9XAX60/The+Break+%26+Smoke+Rover Blog - Hope for #metoo It's a bit of a cliche to say CanLit is always blood + snow. These novels stay true to form, but offer so much more. Rich characters, engaging plots, important themes and beautiful writing. Both worth the read! The Break by Katherine Vermette Smoke River by Krista Koss 2016 House of Anansi 2014 Emblem (McClelland & Stewart) Set in Winnipeg, MA Set in Southern Ontario https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1509122884547-33C0FRM9B06S0YACRQ3U/After+the+Falls Blog - Hope for #metoo After the Falls by Catherine Gildiner 2009 Knopf Canada Memoir This book is the second in a series of three. I recommend all three, but the loss of innocence in this book was particularly haunting. 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It’s been a minute since “Between Silk & Wool” was launched and what a ride! I’ve been overwhelmed by the letters from readers, and the willingness of strangers to share their personal stories. I had hoped the novel would find readers; I didn’t expect it would reach thousands through word of mouth. I should have known that stories find their way. Read More... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1712771886742-1Q930KHQAHGSSGCNP4V3/image-asset.png Home - Return to Veracruz—Novel in Progress Twenty-five years seems like enough distance to begin to write about a country that shaped me in so many ways. My love for Veracruz runs deep, and my ongoing relationship with all things Mexican even deeper. This coming of age novel is inspired by the women I lived with in this historic port city, the countryside I was exposed to and the stories that continue to unfold in real life and on the page. My love of history sent me back into the 60’s to better understand the 90’s, and three years into this project I wonder now more than ever if anyone understands the complexity of this beautiful, tragic and magical place. As a young adult, I had no sense of history, no appreciation for student movements, narco violence or political corruption. I was immersed in adventure, exotic fruit and heavily perfumed, high octane macho culture. In other words, superficial Mexico, postcard Mexico, commodified Mexico. Today, I hope to do justice to some of the nuance beyond what I experienced as a young woman, and paint a portrait of a place and people whose resilience and joy continues to inspire me all these years later. Photo credit: Lourdes Alonso, Adalberto Ríos Szalay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1709243512207-65G45AJI03TPFANXS7P2/image-asset.png Home - From Draft to Publication...Thank you libraries! When I was touring my first novel, sometimes I would test out drafts of other projects, just for fun. I first read an early draft of “Margaret” in the Spring of 2022 at the L.E. Shore Memorial Library. Now it’s out in Issue 169 of The New Quarterly. Enjoy! Read it online for free for a limited time Stories take time, and I’m grateful to the audiences who have tolerated the early drafts, and who like to play with me along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1656348706908-6HXV90LOTI5XW3J46U7K/image-asset.png Home - Where to Purchase Between Silk & Wool "For fans of Pam Jenoff, Ruta Sepetys and Jennifer Robson comes a richly told WWII story of unlikely allies struggling together against Nazi occupation in the Netherlands." The seamstress As the Dutch flag is torn down and replaced with Nazi swastikas, young Hilde Zontag is compelled to resist the Germans only to discover her beloved father’s collaboration. This shocking betrayal threatens to erode the trust between Hilde and the boy she loves. So when her father warns there’s no resistance without blood, Hilde wonders if her choices will start—or stop—the bleeding. The chatelaine When the ancestral home she has sacrificed everything for is seized by the Nazis, Lady Astrid ignores her unwanted guests until she’s forced to dress up and cooperate to save her estate from ruin. She's making the best of things, but her children’s mysterious tutor—a refugee she’s inexplicably drawn towards—knows all too well that it takes more than new clothes to survive a war. As deception becomes reflex, Hilde and Astrid must choose between following the patterns of the past or stitching together a future of their own making. 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Between farmers and townies, city folk and hippie nomads, the stories of life in the Valley portray unlikely souls becoming friends, and the kind of community each of us long for, a place where we truly belong. * Read the series from the beginning. Big Love for Local Independent Bookstores Small bookstores don’t have a lot of room for inventory, so when someone says, “we’ll take a dozen” and asks you to sign the books, it’s the best feeling ever. Are you a curious retailer? 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I wasn’t sure if he wept because he’d been so wrong, or because we’d been so badly crushed, but either way, defeat sank into the slant of his shoulders as he smoked his pipe. He looked worse than when Mama was taken away, when the infection in her tooth spread to her brain. Grief returned to his deep blue eyes, telling me how scared I should have been. I couldn’t imagine what could be worse than the empty hospital bed in the Apeldoorn Women’s Hospital. But he could. I promised myself to be a good daughter. Whatever happened next, we’d be alright as long as we stuck together. I waited for him to reassure us, but he stayed in his garden. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore. I decided to tiptoe upstairs and see for myself what the world looked like now that we were occupied. I slipped my hand under the heavy blanket covering the window only to discover the streets were completely empty. Coloured papers had been dropped from the skies, the first of hundreds of edicts that would slowly transform our lives. I wanted to sneak out and read them, but I’d promised myself to behave. A promise I was already regretting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597604aca5790aef87efeebb/1669759884127-ZBXJSM523I8QF7RSEFHA/image-asset.jpg Home - Five Christmases Under Nazi Occupation What was Christmas like in the Netherlands that first year of Nazi occupation? What was it like for the young daughter of a humble gardener or the wealthy daughter of the village chatelaine? From Between Silk & Wool: Astrid thought of the dresses she’d wanted to have made for Katrine, for elegant parties at the manor houses of Ruurlo, Middachten and Rosendaal. She’d imagined the invitations, the flowers, the food. Now all the estates were either occupied by Germans, abandoned or boarded up. The life she imagined for her daughter was in the past. As the carriage wound its way back to Soelenkasteel, the potholes in the road grew deeper. Astrid’s girdle dug into her waist and her apprehension swelled. “Why don’t we all go together?” Hans suggested. “Tomorrow is the first day of the Christmas Market.” “Mother, can we?” Astrid closed her eyes. She saw herself wandering the stalls of Christmas Markets as a child, the scent of appleflappen and roasted peanuts in the air. She remembered a small stall where an old man carved ornaments out of olive wood, and a nativity scene her father bought. Where was it now? She wondered if the stalls, like everything else, would only be a shadow of what they’d once been. “Alright. After your morning lessons. I’ll take you both out for lunch and you can share your father’s gift with the baker.” Thank you for sending the spices, Jan. 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