When fellow Toastmaster Gary asked if I would someday write a book, I didn’t know how that would happen. After all I was writing short pieces only—opinion editorials and articles. After my first writer’s conference in 2001, I began … Continue reading →
Both within and outside of my club, there have been opportunities to practise what I learned in Toastmasters. Taking what I learned there outside was, as in Marj’s words, “Getting ready for the big game.” A couple of years … Continue reading →
Toastmasters meetings became part of my weekly routine and although I took two years to get my first designation, CTM (Competent Toastmaster), I was learning every week, getting more practice up in front of the room doing some role. … Continue reading →
Now that I’m in Pathways, we all do an Ice Breaker. at the beginning of each new path. In Toastmasters, as a new member, it was our first speech to introduce ourselves to the club. I was to let … Continue reading →
I am a Toastmaster and have been since January 2004. My initiative this month, besides competing in the upcoming club speech contests, is to write more often. Eight times, precisely, for my Level 4 elective project of Pathways. For … Continue reading →
Two friends and I set out on Saturday, November 2, for Paris, Ontario, for the artisan’s yearly event, their 28th in fact. While the artists used to host the buyers and lookers in their homes and other facilities, this year … Continue reading →
This week, particularly, we’ve been feeling the cooler air move in, signalling the beginning of autumn weather. Leaves on the trees are beginning to turn colour and we’re seeing vivid reds on our street. Though not many leaves have fallen, … Continue reading →
Just over a week ago, I picked up my order of Travelling Light, a collection of my poetry that’s been published in various places from 2002 until this year. From literary publications to denominational magazines and in my own books, … Continue reading →
My garden awaited on return from our holidays and so did my plans for canning and relish making. With a friend, we made dill pickles, bread and butter pickles and I made pickled beets on my own as well as … Continue reading →
From the Weavery, we went on to the Glen Alda church where our granddaughters sat in a pew as they do in our church back home. They checked the front of the sanctuary where the collection plate rested and … Continue reading →
