Mary Rajotte’s Blog Posts

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…

Self-analysis

I've been doing 'morning pages' every day, according to The Artist's Way. It's a little difficult, actually. Not the actual writing, but the self-analysis. I've discovered that I regret that path I've chosen in terms of what I want to do with my life. For whatever reasons, I've put up barriers that have steered me…

Birthday Antics

Chris emailed me Tuesday from work and told me to be ready by 9 to go out to dinner. We feasted on shrimp and Bacardi Silver at Red Lobster. The waitress overheard me begging Chris not to tell them it was my birthday (I hate those all-employee birthday sing-a-longs!), and quietly brought me a caramel-covered…