Very cool that your office is your childhood bedroom! I have an upstairs office space in which I’ve basically re-created my childhood bedroom (without the bed and my sister’s belongings). Lots of my hardback books from childhood on two bookshelves, my toy chest (crammed with yarn and crochet needles), and other miscellaneous art supplies coexist in creative clutter. I love seeing books my father gave me some 50 years ago. Your setup, even with remodeling, sounds like it firmly roots you in place!
I enjoyed reading this newsletter BUT the more I read I was reminded of another woman with the same last name, who rescued me from classroom boredom, and taught me how to sew my own jeans and bras (in the early 70's )while I was at Laurentian University on a federal government scholarship for a BScN . I was awarded my four year degree in three years perhaps "because there is a time and space for everything". I have also graduated from making bras to knitting breast prostheses for cancer survivors.
It's so nice to meet another graduate of the University of Windsor's Masters in Literature and Creative Writing. I love your advice to write the thing that makes your soul sing. I write children's books set in our world but with magical elements. I hope you keep pulling in your fantastical elements, and following your own path.
Very cool that your office is your childhood bedroom! I have an upstairs office space in which I’ve basically re-created my childhood bedroom (without the bed and my sister’s belongings). Lots of my hardback books from childhood on two bookshelves, my toy chest (crammed with yarn and crochet needles), and other miscellaneous art supplies coexist in creative clutter. I love seeing books my father gave me some 50 years ago. Your setup, even with remodeling, sounds like it firmly roots you in place!
I enjoyed reading this newsletter BUT the more I read I was reminded of another woman with the same last name, who rescued me from classroom boredom, and taught me how to sew my own jeans and bras (in the early 70's )while I was at Laurentian University on a federal government scholarship for a BScN . I was awarded my four year degree in three years perhaps "because there is a time and space for everything". I have also graduated from making bras to knitting breast prostheses for cancer survivors.
It's so nice to meet another graduate of the University of Windsor's Masters in Literature and Creative Writing. I love your advice to write the thing that makes your soul sing. I write children's books set in our world but with magical elements. I hope you keep pulling in your fantastical elements, and following your own path.