Tag Archive | Port Hope

Refuge in Prison is a Book Club

Refuge in Prison is a Book Club

The title caught my attention on a shelf in the Port Hope library. The Prison Book Club. A neighbor and I started a book club here in town over ten years ago, and I know how much it means to all of us. I had to find out how a book club worked in a […]

Who is Your Audience?

It was Mother’s Day in Port Hope. In a small house, gray clapboard with blue shutters, the phone rang. Her walker was handy, but so was the phone this time. It was John. “Mom, you have to write your story!” John had just reconnected with the yoga teacher his mom had signed him up with […]

Editing an Arctic Memoir

Editing an Arctic Memoir

(UPDATE! UPDATE! In 2018, Native Born Son  was published. It’s wonderful!  I highly recommend it. It will give you an authentic feeling for what life was like for some of the Arctic’s first peoples by a man who lived with them, and loved and respected them.) You know how attics can contain hidden treasure? When Marnie Hare […]