Originally published, Sunday, November 29, 2009
Transition quite recently became a verb.
Parent has been one for a while.
Concerning used to be a preposition but sometime in the last 18 months or so
it turned into an adjective.
These changes make me feel as if the floor is tilting, though not as steeply
as some of the grammatical and idiomatic [...]
Originally published, Sunday, November 15, 2009
Since my last post I’ve been reading my head off, at two book clubs, at the Vancouver International Writers’ Festival, at the Vertigo Reading Series in Regina, at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon, at a creative writing class at Vancouver Island University — and on 16 November at the main branch [...]
Originally published, Thursday, October 15, 2009
Many thanks to Kerry Clare, whose lively literary blog is at picklemethis.blogspot.com
She’s written a wonderful commentary on English Stories. Here’s a taste –
“With mere words (though there is nothing mere about her words), Flood has recreated a time and a place and an atmosphere so steeped, I could trace my [...]
Originally published, Saturday, October 10, 2009
A long time since I’ve made an entry!
September I spent in England and Ireland. England featured some great theatre, marvellous river trips on the Thames, and many museums and galleries, but Ireland was the best. With a good friend, I did a 10-day walking tour in the southwest, round the [...]