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Spring in the air?

February 27, 2021

I thought spring was in the air. I bought these at the grocery store, they are not from my garden. It isn’t that warm here. Aren’t they lovely? But I was mistaken. Here is what happened on our deck tonight. The second time in a week A dump of hail. Apparently spring is not in…

Robert Dugoni workshop – author encouragement

March 15, 2016

I attended a writing seminar taught by Robert Dugoni. He’s a bestselling author of police detective mysteries and about 35 people arrived from all over Vancouver Island to hear what he had to say, which turned out to be quite a lot. And it was not only interesting but useful information. I’ve written a…

Merry Christmas, wreaths, garlands, swags

December 9, 2015

Do you make your own Christmas wreaths and garlands? I went out to cut branches for my Christmas swags for either side of the door, and came back with the following – red cedar (you can tell by the colour of the stems and bark) balsam fir, with the delightful light green tips to the…

Romantic Suspense – why I write

June 28, 2014

Let me tell you a little about me, Sylvie Grayson, and why I write! What am I currently working on? My current work is a story called Suspended Animation, where an ambitious young hockey player is reluctantly dragged home because of a crisis, to discover his father is too ill to run the family trucking…