For five years I’ve been walking the same route from home to the Victoria Conservatory of Music where I teach. By the same route, I mean the same route. I’m on automatic pilot to the point of discomfort if, for some reason,…
I’m thrilled to learn that my short story “Last Concert – Luzon, Philippines” won first runner-up in PRISM international’s 2013 Fiction contest. The story features a constipated classical guitarist on the last concert of his first tour, a hole in…
End of the teaching year brings cards and gifts (thanks kidlets!) I’m not quite sure what was intended here though…
I’m happy to have a story forthcoming in Riddle Fence‘s next issue. “The Good Stuff” is a weird little piece that includes brandy, peaches, and some point-of-view from an orchard hog. Pigs! I’m glad this story found a home, especially…
There were too many students for just one recital this year, so we had two. Thanks to everyone who came out on Mother’s Day and played! Those who couldn’t: we missed you, but next time.
Lovely rainy longweekend spent exploring beaches along Victoria. Many, many, slugs found.
Malahat Issue 178 (and my short story “Apiculture”) is out and in the mailbox! I hope you enjoy–I had great fun reading at the Malahat Review/This Side of West launch last Tuesday. Will Johnson interviewed me about this piece, as…
This bloomed in my house yesterday. It grows on a vine that looks similar to a lipstick plant (thick juicy leaves though a little bigger) and I have no idea what it is. Two blooms like this in a hanging…
Tonight I’m reading for an Art Dean’s conference hosted by the University of Victoria. I’ll be promoting The Malahat Review by reading from “Apiculture” This story grew from a poem I wrote, though looking at the poem now it seems…