I was honoured to read my poem today at the South Coast Writer’s Centre International Women’s Day celebration (as I have for the past two years) and even more humbled to be selected as this year’s winner of the competition. Wow!! The theme for this year was #balanceforbetter and I wanted to explore the fragile…
I posted a new poem on Instagram this week and I noticed it didn’t get as many likes as some of my previous poetry posts have. Granted, I did post it at midnight (right after I wrote it) and perhaps the folks on Instagram didn’t like the poem (that’s ok too). But I wondered whether the…
My piece for International Women’s Day power voice writing comp 2018 on the theme ‘Progress’. Why #pressforprogress? Why not #pressforregress? To go back before this time, when we had no reason to tag #metoo. When #timesup was simply a call to mark the start of a game, and not the end of hiding out and…