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Midsummer Glad Song
Ride the wave to goosebump town with a Welsh male voice choir at the height of its pitch-perfect powers. 🌊🪿
(Image: still from “Bruno in TEARS over HEAVENLY vocals” provided to YouTube by Britain’s Got Talent)
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)