photo by Kate Inglis
In a world that makes no sense to me, making nonsense makes sense.
I'm a writer, reciter, a speaker, a teacher, a sister, a daughter, a mother, a wife. A listener, a seeker , a maker of nonsense, a reader, a leader, a lipslippery fool. A doctor, a walker, a talk-talk-talk- talker, a giggle-glad Oma, an odd sort of soul.
Yearner and learner
An ever beginner!
Hope is my teacher
Life is my school.
FALL 2012
Thin Air International Writer's Festival, Winnipeg
Vancouver International Writers Fest
25th anniversary edition of Toes In My Nose with art by Sydney Smith
Night Sky Wheel Ride is here! With art by Yayo. Published by Tradewind.
...and in French!
A brand-new There Were Monkeys In My Kitchen with art by Sydney Smith
With thanks to Woozles, Benjamin Books, Tattle Tales, Westminster, Tidewater, and Chapters Indigo Charlottetown.
From last year:
Breathe, Stretch, Write released in February 2011.
2011: Pluto's Ghost shortlisted for Canadian Librarian Association Young Adult Book of the Year, Atlantic Booksellers Choice Award, the Canadian Booksellers Libris Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction; WON! CBA Libris Award for young adult book of the year.
We're celebrating the re-release of Mabel Murple by Nimbus Publishing--the first of many Sheree Fitch classics! SHORTLISTED for Libris award. Thank you Sydney Smith and Nimbus!
NEW COVER FOR Kiss the Joy as it Flies, a book that sails on! 2009 SHORTLIST for Stephen Leacock Award
Design Won the CBC Book CLUB Bookie AWARD!
The CBC on Canada's Funniest Women Writers
Come live and be merry and join with me and sing the sweet chorus of Ha Ha Hee.
~ William Blake
Look through the eyes of a child
even with your broken rumpled adult heart
live for a while in the country that is childood
remember time before words
Then:
sing
wonder
wander on sensory alert
listen to your beating infant heart
blow bubbles of impish joy
you're getting close
write for that child you once were
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Reader Comments (2)
Thanks. I needed that.
Beautiful. This brought tears to my eyes. I read onwards, then came back and re-read it. It brought tears again. Beautiful. Thank-you.