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Skeleton Bushes (background story to Ladybird Fly)

  • November 2, 2017
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This story is about a Prairie Princess who is enamoured with Ladybirds. Some might call them Ladybugs but she is a princess and remembers the childhood rhyme “Ladybird ladybird, fly away home! Your house is on fire, your children all gone. All but one and her name is Anne. She has crept under the pudding…

Ladybird Fly

  At last I have launched a wee story that has been lingering in the form of text, drawings and paintings in my drawers and folders. Thanks to the creative talents of Igpy Kin and Lisa Murphy Lamb at Loft 112 in Calgary’s East Village, I have a chap book to show you! This is…

Apples from Heaven

  • March 21, 2017
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Composer Cheryl Cooney and I first met by chance on the tennis court when we were both on vacation in Hawaii.  Discovering that we both came from Canada and that her husband knew some of my cousins, I felt an immediate bond.  I had the chance to see Cheryl play an afternoon piano concert at…