Mary Rajotte’s Blog Posts

Plan of Attack

At the moment I seem to have misplaced the page of writing I did on Friday where I tried to remember everything I could about living on Finsbury Crescent. This irritates me.  I suppose I could just continue to write about some other aspect and piece them together later. I got an e-mail from a…

Continuing…

I haven't been sleeping well lately. Since Friday, I've been researching various writing courses online. It started with the Humber School for Writers. But when I realized it's a post-graduate course, and that I may not be able to get into the program, I've been looking at college & university continuing ed. courses. An English…

Wonderings

When I look at my life, I feel I don't have many adventures to share. The most interesting and daring thing I have ever done was that summer I moved to B.C. and spent it backpacking and camping out on the beach in the middle of the rain forest. My 'hippie summer', for sure! The…

Safety Net

I was so exhausted last night that I fell asleep on the couch. I was hoping to get some time in on my superstition story; or get back to working on 'The Mirror'; or do some free writing on dad's story. The latter is one where I have no idea what the story will be…

Digging

Research on the brain. I've been trying to find out everything I can about Grandma's various books & stories in print. Looks like I may have to take a trek to the Reference Library for the ones on newspapers, as I contacted the Standard, and they have no idea who she is. I did find…