EMP
My blogs
| Location | Canada |
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| Introduction | Since I was 7, I knew I’d be a writer-poet when I grew up. Once I ventured out on my own (after hap’ly co-authoring and publishing a book of letters in 2007), I set up a baker’s dozen blogs as a discipline to record my thoughts and type up all the random bits ’n’ pieces composed in coffee shops and on silent retreat days. (It gives my international friends and relations something to do during long summer nights.) Pop in and visit. Leave a comment. Write a poem—or a letter! Or share a favourite photo. |
| Interests | art appreciation, autumn, being in or near mountains, being on or near water, biblical preaching, candlelit baths, flying, foreign languages, friendship/accountability, gardening, global correspondence, hippos, horse riding, hot air ballooning, Jesus, journalling, letter writing, linguistics, photo-card design, photography, piano, poetry, quality chocolate, reading, rain, silent retreats, snow, solitude, summerfresh sweetcorn, teaching, tea-drinking, thunderstorms, travel, vanilla, watermelon, wordsmithing |
| Favorite movies | 84 Charing Cross Rd, A Christmas Carol, Amazing Grace, Amazing Journeys, Anthony Hopkins, August Rush, Becoming Jane, Branagh’s Shakespeare, Charles Dickens movies, Chariots of Fire, Charlotte’s Web, Dead Poets’ Society, Emma Thompson, Finding Forrester, Il Postino, It’s a Wonderful Life, Jane Austen movies, Julia Roberts, Life Is Beautiful, Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, My Fair Lady, Narnia, National Geographic documentaries, Out of Africa, Planet Earth, Restless Conscience, Sean Connery, Secretariat, Shadowlands, Stranger Than Fiction, The Jesus film, The Magic Never Ends, The Sound of Music, UP |
| Favorite music | Barb Glennie, bells, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Celtic music, choral music, classical music, Drakensberg Boys’ Choir, Ella & Louis (and Oscar too), Enya, European composers, glockenspiel, harp(sichord), Helmut Lotti, jazz, Joshua Knaak, Keith & Kristyn Getty, Laurika Rauch, Lindsay Cade, The Master’s Singers, Michael Bublé, Mike Oldfield’s Etude; Killing Fields, panpipes, piano, Quartetto Telemann, Queen, Rich Mullins, Roger Whittaker, sax, strings, Susan Boyle, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Walking on Sunshine, The Waterboys’ The Whole of the Moon, The Wiebes, xylophone |
| Favorite books | A.A. Milne, Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie series, Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea, anthologies, Barb Howe’s Forgotten Voices, Brad Huebert’s Finding Home, C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Dick King-Smith, Dorothy Sayers, Dylan Thomas, e.e. cummings, Ellis Peters, Enid Blyton, Eric Baker, Eugene Peterson, G.K. Chesterton, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Jenn Kelly, Jerry Spinelli’s StarGirl, J.K. Rowling, John Bunyan, John Donne, John Milton, letters, Luci Shaw, Madeleine L’Engle, Friends for the Journey, Max Lucado, Murray Andrew Pura, Nick Bantok, Pablo Neruda, personal correspondence, poetry, Shakespeare, The Bible, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Peel Society, The Hippo and the Unicorn, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, WJB, W.B. Yeats, Keats, world lit. |