So the other night I had a major, major book event. I spoke at my mother’s Hadassah Chapter: Park Slope, Brooklyn. There was cake, there was coffee, there was hummus & salad & quinoa. And there were thirty-odd Jewish women in their 40s and 50s and 60s, each of them (well, almost) holding a copy of Sima. It [...]
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Oh Canada!
Saturday morning my phone rang at 7am. I assumed it’d be my supervisor calling with news of a lady in labour, but it was my friend Eric-from-Edmonton (well, originally from Thunder Bay, ON) calling to tell me I was reviewed in The Globe and Mail. “And it’s fanastic,” he said. It was. It is. It’s here. [...]
Camel vs caramel, and where are the reviews?!
Things are quiet, though I’m anticipating a birth streak: on my first day back in clinic last week (with a new clinical supervisor, as the midwife I’ve been shadowing since October is on holiday this month), I discovered that all our clients appear to be 38 weeks pregnant with a history of giving birth at 38 weeks. Oh. [...]
home again home again
Well, it took a little longer than expected (curses upon Air Canada!) but Eva and I arrived back to Victoria in time for sushi lunch the other day. Okay, I know that nothing is more boring than recounting airport travails — except perhaps undergoing an airport travail in the first place. But I have to [...]
Snowy night, early flight
I’m watching the snow come down outside my in-laws home in Waterloo, Ontario, and hoping my flight to NYC takes off on time tomorrow. I had two readings in Toronto this week, and one in Waterloo. We packed Tryst Lingerie Wednesday night–sipped cocktails, read from my novel, answered a few questions, and then got to [...]
On the road
Writing from Toronto, which means I am officially “on tour.” Gulp. It also means, realistically, that I am staying with family and having a lovely time. The highlight so far: Eva and her six-year-old cousin, Maia, broke into some secret chocolate stash while supposably asleep in bed. They were caught. Maia was whistle-clean and innocent [...]
Blogs
I’ve been getting a lot of blog shout-outs lately. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s incredibly exciting to see my book getting out there. Just about a month to publication now. Gulp. Meantime I am still in Vancouver for my midwifery intensive, trudging through slush. I’ve only been a Canadian citizen since last February (could [...]