I Don’t Want to be A Trauma Doctor
I also don’t want to be a greedy lawyer. Or a sexist ad man or a person of nobility from 300 AC.
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Reviews
Moving to a New and Improved (Podcast) Home
Don’t worry – Derek and I aren’t moving again! If you’ve visited here in recent years, you’ll know we shuttled around before settling in Port Stanley. We’ve been here almost four years and have no intention of leaving.
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Throwing the Book (Suggestions) at You
We’re all going to read the Stephen Kings and James Pattersons and Oprah picks and the works of other best-selling authors we love. That’s a given. For me, part of the purpose of reading is the joy of discovery. Sometimes that means taking a chance on a book from someone new.
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Breaking Canadians – Audiobook in Progress
One of the best things about narrating audiobooks is learning new things by reading them. I have almost finished narrating a fascinating book about the experiences of health-care workers, advocates for people with disabilities and others in Canada during COVID-19. You’ll recall that our country went from banging pots and pans in admiration for doctors, nurses and PSWs, to allowing disinformation to spread so rapidly that people in health care were harrassed and threatened.
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A Jaunt to Southern Georgian Bay
The wonderful woman who has been acting as my fiction Book Agent suggested that I attend an event for authors in Collingwood. Knowing good advice when I hear it, I got tickets for Derek and me and we made a getaway of it.
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Crisis of Faith (in my own Writing)
I recently read a novel that was so compelling, so well written and engaging that it made me want to hang up my typing fingers.
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Katie Couric’s and my Careers
I just finished Katie Couric’s 2021 autobiography, Going There. And I was amazed at how many similar experiences we had in broadcasting and journalism.
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Discovering True Scrappiness in a Best-Selling Book
Have you ever known someone who became famous? I mean, really famous. Ten million social media followers and appearances on major TV shows like Good Morning America famous? Having their face on a New York city billboard famous? While I’m stretching the definition of the verb “know”, I recently discovered someone’s a self-made sensation.
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Healthy (Really!) Two-Ingredient Chocolate Pudding
This one’s for anyone who wants a treat that doesn’t contain white sugar. Or who’s craving chocolate with vitamins in it. And it’s for parents who can’t get their kids to eat a vegetable. Oh heck, it’s for anyone who wants to try something different!
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The Top Shows (We Got Around to Watching) of the Year
In 2023, we mixed our streaming views with new and current stuff while also taking the TV time machine back a few decades.
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Review: Welcome to the Stupidpocalypse – Survival Tips for the Dumbageddon
You’ve probably read a funny post or watched a viral video by Brittlestar, aka Stewart Reynolds. He’s all over social media as Canada’s Dad, nailing Canadianisms and other isms including polarizing subjects with wit, humour, and just the right tone. His comedy hits a narrow sweet spot between “if you do this, you’re stupid” and, “stupid doesn’t mean worthless – let me give you a hug!”
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Review: Foolish – Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation, by Sarah Cooper
So many comedy and comedy-adjacent people have released books in recent weeks. It’s been paradise for me, a voracious reader of memoirs who would rather watch stand-up than any other form of live performance. If I had my career to do all over again…but I digress!
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Review: Kiss the Red Stairs by Marsha Lederman
The horrors of the Holocaust are well known to most of us. The statistics, anyway. Six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis. One-quarter of them, children. Many more were also killed, including disabled people, gays, Polish people, and prisoners of war.
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Book Review – The Trauma Beat by Tamara Cherry
As a news anchor (and previously an occasional reporter), I always tried to keep in mind that the subjects of news stories were real people. They were only human, and might be living their worst day as their name – or the name of a loved one – made the news.
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Reviewing the Reviews of Reviewers, Including My Own
I used to review events as part of my work in broadcasting. It was never comfortable. TV shows, movies – not so bad. But live productions that cost a lot of money? I had a hard time telling people to pay to see something I had seen for free. Unless I was completely blown away by it. And few things blew me away.
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The Spare in a Pair
Prince Harry said he held back stories about his brother, Prince William, in his new memoir Spare because he didn’t want them “out there”. What he did share surely embarrassed the heir to the British throne. And exposed William, their father, and other members of the royal family as cunning, manipulative twits.
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All the World’s A Stage – ImPort Stanley
The last time I attended a production at Port Stanley Festival Theatre, I was living in Toronto.
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