My mom died on Nov 19 2023.  The pic above is one of my favorites taken a few years back. It personifies her joy for life, child-like innocence and the laughter that lived within her despite the burdens she carried.  Her death is life changing for my family and for me personally.   Having been her […]

Where to begin?   Back in August (or even before), my mother started feeling off.  It was gradual and she had lost some weight over a number of months.  Her appetite was not what it used to be and oftentimes she felt nauseous.   She moved in with me in December of 2014 and over those nine […]

Okay – some things are too late.  Let’s start there.  You don’t need me to make a list.   We can all come up with examples.  But for the sake of this blog, I can assure you that there are a great many things in your life in this moment that are never too late.  Here’s […]

I had the pleasure of attending a two-day tv writing workshop run by the man above,  Ins Choi, who is the writer of the play Kim’s Convenience and subsequent creator of the same show that ran on the CBC network.   I first met/saw Ins in a production of a play back in the early 2000’s […]

This above quote screamed out at me because it represents the basis of much of my writing.  The characters I am most fascinating with in film, literature and plays are the ones who are “seared with scars”. It does not take strength to live in courage if you have everything, if you’ve come from a […]

When I’m in the presence of these two remarkable women, life is pretty beautiful.  Annmarie Morais (“Annie”) I’ve know since my days at York.  A fellow writer as well – we often commiserate on the highs and lows of writing and what’s for lunch (because lunch is what’s really important).  She was a showrunner on […]

It’s always a good day when I receive an email like the one below: Also, this bit of information was posted on The Script Lab Contest site about the amount of entries submitted: A PROMISED I MADE TO MR. BAGELS is one of 1000 scripts that advanced to the 2nd Round of The Script Lab […]

I met Liz Best back in 2018.  I remember our first conversation.  My play ANIMAL was chosen by the Alumnae Theatre to have a public reading and I as the writer had to interview directors.   Liz sat across from me and one of the very first things she said was, “Oh, I really liked yours.”  […]

When demons from his past come back to haunt an artistic father, his life-long struggle with mental illness resurfaces and throws his family into turmoil, threatening his son’s burgeoning hockey career.  Break Away is a psychological thriller with action bouncing back and forth between the brutality of mental illness and the pure grit it takes […]

We are tied to our past for better or worse.  If you want to know who you are today and how you turned out and even where you are going, look back to your past.  In my writings, the past plays a prominent role.   The photo above was taken approximately in 1960.  It’s hard to […]