Reading and signing this Saturday
Monkeyshines Children’s Books is such a fun place to explore! On Saturday, May 31, I will be reading from Ospreys in Danger and signing books, so please drop in and say hello. We...
From call to launch: Two years, three months and 17 days
My telephone – my rather retro home landline – has a strange feature: it announces the caller. I found that annoying right from the start because it garbled simple words. I mean, really, how difficult is “Grandma...
BOOK LAUNCH of Ospreys in Danger
I hope you’ll join me in celebrating the launch of Ospreys in Danger on Saturday, May 10, 1:00 – 3:00 pm at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary. I’ll share a bit of the book...
Adele Trivia Quiz
In 2008, Adele came to world-wide attention with her first album. Since then she has sold millions of albums and won buckets of awards – and dropped out of sight. Her rocky relationships were...
Test your trivia knowledge: Michael Phelps
Here’s a quiz to test how much you know about one of the best-known athletes in the United States and around the world. At the London Olympics, he became the most-decorated Olympian of all time. ...
A new Michael Phelps biography for 2013!
Researching this biography was a lot of fun – Phelps is an interesting guy with an interesting story. There are always a few things I can’t squeeze into my books, including a few little...
Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrated this month
Fifty years have passed since Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream”. On August 28, President Obama will give a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where King stood half...
Hables Espanol?
I can order three beer in Japanese and ask for directions to the washroom in French, but I can’t claim to be truly fluent in any language other than English. And sometimes even that’s...
