The Last Goldfish launches online!
The Last Goldfish: A True Tale of Friendship available from Biblioasis April 2020. A memoir of youth, friendship and the impermanence of life.
The Last Goldfish: A True Tale of Friendship available from Biblioasis April 2020. A memoir of youth, friendship and the impermanence of life.
I will be offering this workshop at the Ottawa Public Library, Sunnyside Branch, Saturday, June 6, 2020. Read more and register.
I will be offering this workshop at the Ottawa Public Library, Carlingwood Branch, Saturday, May 2, 2020.
Strapped sandals lift the lady above the lawn. Hung linens adopt her hippy contours. This is no steamy Tide commercial. Our star is absorbed in cooler, wetter realities. She wears a blue dress, white scarf.
Shake it before a patch of light: one dwarf, one lined, one slender.
The new Caledonian, the Eastern Pacific, and—careful, she’s tumbled to a corner— Hippocampus Denise, the smallest of the small, stretching one full centimetre from her Cyrano de Bergerac snout, over her lumpy coronet, down the bony plates (two knobs and a spine at each junction), through the jovial tail, in, in, in. The museum owns 3,000.
The Last Goldfish: A True Tale of Friendship available from Biblioasis April 2020. A memoir of youth, friendship and the impermanence of life.
I can’t stop thinking about the sauerkraut. I’ll give you the scene. A young woman in her Toronto apartment. Some workers arrive to fix the plumbing downstairs, and one comes up to turn on the water.
‘Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was that you could go everywhere and do everything’