For years now I’ve been known as a writer, both of TV and middle-grade/YA novels. But some of you may also remember me fondly from my days as a famous Canadian actor. Okay, that was a joke. I was never famous. Nor was I an actor. But that didn’t stop the folks at Degrassi Junior […]
Celebrity Encounter #4 – Shriekback (and how it sorta changed my life)
Okay so this one will only be for people who were around in the ’80’s music scene. And this story is more about yours truly than the celeb. Remember “Shriekback?” Well, I was a huge fan. They were playing, this must be around 1986, at the Masonic Temple in Toronto. I went. I don’t remember […]
Possibly the Coolest Thing Ever …
Okay … Not as cool as it would be to have George Clooney agree to produce, direct and make a cameo appearance in “Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom.” That would be the coolest. But this is a close (close-ish? far-ish?) second. One of my book club gals (I have the best book club […]