From out of the blue, an anonymous email that left me slightly weepy:
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Archives for General
Five Fedoras, re-visited
Re-visiting this little piece from 2010 in memory of Leonard Cohen:
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Remembrance: “Courage”
It’s my habit to mark Remembrance Day by posting this fine piece of writing by my father, who at age eighteen was a soldier with the Royal Navy during World War II. A chance encounter with two small boys in the rubble in bombed-out Bristol changed his life. ~Binnie Payzant-Brennan
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Paper Plate Plot Point
“I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.” Franz Schubert
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Ending/beginning
This took me by surprise (it always does):
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Novel #3
“It’s like the smoke after a fire – that’s the story.” ~ James Thierree Chaplin
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At the Herrick Library
“No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of the beginning.” ~ Martin Scorsese
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Reading at Dalhousie University
I’m really excited about this reading – I’ll be reading a bit from my novel and talking about the creative process and how it allowed me to write about something I’d never have dreamed about writing until I came across a shiny object… and decided to pay attention to it. Hope to see some of you there!
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Books & Reviews
Dear Readers:
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Courage
(It’s my habit to mark Remembrance Day by posting this fine piece of writing by my father, who was a soldier with the Royal Navy during World War II. An encounter with two small boys in the rubble in bombed-out Bristol changed his life.)
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