Category: books read

• wicked good writing

  I start week 7 of my 8-week bootcamp with Suzy Vadori. How is it going? I have dealt with a 2 week tension headache from writing and doing the exercises. That is now gone. I have had overwhelming slumps and negative bursts of thinking my work is a piece of crap. That passes and I […]

  Donna

  June 12, 2022

  about me, books read, Uncategorized, what works for you, writing

  3rd revision of my draft, good things, I have a book coach, Lise Dion author, suzy vadori, tension headaches while writing, The Secret of the Blue Trunk, wicked good fiction bootcamp, writing goal

• paper book reading

  I have put away my e-reader and now reading books that I can flip the pages. I was going through my old suitcase where I store unused techie things and found this bookmark and reading light. I got it at Chapters/Indigo retail store a few years back. I even had the correct batteries for it […]

  Donna

  April 2, 2022

  about me, books read, Uncategorized, what works for you

  chapters indigo store find, e-reader no more, good things, reading, reading light and book mark, reading paper books, surprise

• I am returning to books (holding it in my hand book)

  My kobo e-reader is done -in and I then started to read on my iPhone on the kobo e-reader mobile app. I then realized that a nice getaway has always been going to the library. I have not gone for at least a year or more. I am not required to wear a mask at […]

  Donna

  March 13, 2022

  about me, books read, writing

  a book to hold and pages to flip, author of That Summer book, character arc, electronic books vs library book, Jennifer Weiner, keep Saskatchewan libraries open, kobo e-reader died, libraries are better than school sometimes, libraries are the best place, reading is education, talking about books, The Writer Magazine

• Blogging daily

  Writing a little something on this blog daily is fun for me!

  Donna

  September 11, 2021

  about me, books read, what works for you

  blogging, focus, good things, julia cameron, planning, quote, The Artist's Way, writing a blog post is fun

• Hygge feels

  This is it. A big hike this afternoon has me putting on the Hygge time for me.

  Donna

  September 3, 2021

  about me, books read, what works for you

  adventure, favourite lounge flower pants, good things, grateful, hygge, reading is Hygge, soft blanket on my knees

• love to read? me too!

  These 3 books I have pre-ordered on my kobo e-reader. They are not available to read until October,. Which one will I read first? Any favourite authors who have new books coming out that you are waiting to get your hands on?

  Donna

  August 24, 2021

  books read

  Andrea Carter, Anthony Doerr, books coming up, books on preorder, love to read

• my life timeline

  The rewards now, since I have mostly passed through the raw edges of grief, are not written in-between the time lines I list below and I have left that out. The hearing impairment of our boys and looking after 4 hearing aids and speech therapy for each of them was a skill I spent too […]

  Donna

  August 1, 2021

  about me, books read, children, heal

  Brian, Graham, hearing aids, hearing impaired, howmanytimesdidImove, husband, lifeevents, married, moving, newhomes, processing withtimelines, shiftingevents, sons, Tommy

• my book ratings

  I like murder mysteries! I like books that keep me tuned into what I desire in my life and also books that help guide myself through this complex world. I wondered what the current book ratings actually are when you see a 3/5…. I do follow other peoples ratings more than I do from Amazon […]

  Donna

  May 24, 2021

  about me, books read

  Agatha Christie murder mystery, book ratings of 5/5, Cassie Stocks, Dance Gladys Dance, Danielle Laporte, Empath Guide, great books, highly sensitive person, How to Rate Books, reading, Shonda Rhimes, spiritual person, Style Statement, The Alchemist, The Desire Map, The Man in The Brown Suit, The Night Circus

• Writing the weight off – does it work?

  

  D0 you like food? How about do you binge eat? or do you know that you actually eat sensibly , but yet, you are still not losing any pounds or just not feeling as good as you could. FOR me it was all of the above.! THIS book called The Writing Diet written by Julia […]

  Donna

  September 4, 2020

  about me, books read, Food, nutritious

  snacking, supper prepping times, taking the weight off, thewritingdiet, walking program for weight loss, writing down what I eat

• John Lennon would say today – Imagine

  

  if you know at all about Law Of Attraction, then this was the beginning and he was one of the first practitioners to act on it.

  Donna

  August 9, 2020

  books read, photography

  1971, COVID 19, imagine, Imagine song, John lennon, Law of Attraction, Pam Grout, War is over, Yoko Ono