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Top Ten TV: #2, Derry Girls 📺
Top ten(ish) TV shows: #2, the hysterical Derry Girls.
Captain Holt to the Rescue
Ten minutes of devastation from one of comedy’s most delectable deadpans. 🚓 🔥
(Image: still from “Holt’s Most Devastating Burns” provided to YouTube by NBC)
Canuck Commute: Extreme Cold Edition ❄️🍁❄️
Walking to work in Canada, part two: getting close to minus fifty…
What a Speech (Safe and Sound) 🌍
PM’s got me feeling like…
(Images: stills from “Safe and Sound” and “‘The old order is not coming back’” provided to YouTube by Capital Cities and CBC News).
Canuck Commute: Summer vs. Winter 🔥🍁❄️
Walking to work in Canada… wildfire season or wintry weather?
More Middle Grade Concept Art 🎨
More concept art by a beta reader who went back for seconds (can we get a hallelujah!). <3
A Weekend’s Worth of Wisdom
Life lessons learned: ergonomics, Murphy’s Law and Mormon Wives workouts.
A Writers’ Guild AGM (and Conference), Expertly Reported On
Look no further for inept, on-the-soil coverage of the 2025 Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild AGM and Conference (“Seeding”)…!
Ultimate Nerd Alert: Writing for Writers in Freelance Magazine
How to take a big swing at a pitch meeting: learn from the sweatiest! (Freelance, Fall 2025)
NDNArtober (for a Foxy Friday 🦊)
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Dump Babes 💿 Record Prairie Gold
Glittering gar(b)age psych from Saskatchewan superstars Dump Babes.
(Chappell, who? 😘)
(Half a) Story Hour 📻 📚
Half an hour of stories for kids - and “kids” of all ages! #ReadResponsibly
A Prairie Transplant’s (First) Conference 🌾
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon to work on words…! (Lyrics: The Guess Who)
The Turning of the Year 🍂
A New Year for nerds: thanks to the bees, condolences to the SiWC…
June Blooms
It’s a bloomin’ rainbow 🌈 #FoundStories #BackyardPride
“Outside Bones,” a Mini Masterpiece 🦷
Try(dent) not to get it stuck in your head! (Netflix, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
May Snaps (No Dragons, Yet) 📷🌷
May happy snappies… morning and evening garden glories. #FoundStories
(Plosive) April Showers ☔️🎙️
It never rains but it pours plosive “Ps…”
Shoots and Leaves 🌱
Spring sprouts the minute the thaw starts (soundtrack courtesy of backyard birds; hair courtesy of household dog). #FoundStories
I Always Liked Jar Jar Binks ✨
Best says it best: it’s been “‘our redemption, as the people who love Star Wars.’” (Quote: The Guardian, Image: Wookiepedia)