🦋V. Bohème🦋

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Not Xmas break AND it's a #Monday AND a 2-day day-job conference...🥺😧
Coffee!!!!!!☕☕☕
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Waking late on this #SlowDownSunday
Some days aren’t about productivity — they’re about refilling.
Rest is part of the work. ✨
#SelfCareSunday #WritingCommunity #SpreadKindness

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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of a genius. Love, love, love - that is the soul of genius."
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Ah, Friday.✨
Even the air feels lighter,...eh?🍁
May your words flow like coffee☕ & your weekend be long enough to write & nap & read an entire novel without guilt.
(Is that too much to ask?) Well, IS IT?😂
Happy Friday, friends. ✍️📚
#WritingCommunity #FridayFeels

Optimism:)
(great title)

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This #ThankfulThursday, I'm grateful for ☕. And for:
Big, bright books & tiny quiet ones.
Some find us via spotlight; others arrive softly, passed hand-to-hand, changing us in ways we never expected.
Here’s to all the stories fighting to be heard✨📚💛
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Happy Humpday🐪 #5AMWritersClub
My lean-in word today is: BIBLIOKLEPT!
My WIP cozy mystery series is set on trains & a bookshop/cafe. It obviously needs a biblioklept😁.
Here's to guarding books📚, creativity, AND our coffee☕!
Let's change the world with our words!
#WriterWednesday #WordsMatter

Oooooh, what a fabulous cover--was checking it out just now and it looks likemy kind of February read. Thanks so much.
Not sure how I'll fare with a 30-page paragraph😆
(other than knowing it will definitely require extra coffee☕)

I couldn't ignore the irony of your name. 😁
I wondered briefly how that would impact one's read...

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Fall's a season of big prizes & big books📚
What book's at the top of your letter to Santa🎅?

Mine is Pick a Colour (Canada's Giller Prize Winner🍁)--it follows the owner of a nail salon.
I pick the colour Pumpkin Spice🎃🍂😁
#TBRTuesday #AmReading #AmWriting✍️

Oh, I just read this. How awful for you. I studied in Salamanca for 1/2 a year in Spain during my undergrad & I have such fond memories. Glad to hear your memoir group made up for it, somewhat, but still.🥺Sorry the humans were being mean girls...

Posted a map for you this morning😂

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Where are you & your WIP on the story coaster?
I may have veered off into extraneous scenery🙄
Coffee first because the scenes won't edit themselves☕☕
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Showing up for #SelfCareSunday this morning looking like a Victorian ghost with a head cold 🤧👻
Today’s goal: write one paragraph in my WIP, drink more lemon tea🍋 than coffee, and not fall asleep on my keyboard😴.
#SlowDownSunday #WritingCommunity #CozyMystery

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Blew past 5am, #woke every ten mins to blow my nose. But, I've seen so many human beings recently doing random acts of absolute #kindness, it truly gives me #hope for the world. November cold sucks, but I'm so grateful to live in Canada🍁
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Dream vs. reality:

I wish I would. I've had many pets, but I've never been so close to a furbaby before, so I thought for sure I would feel him, but I can't so far. Waiting for him to appear, even in a dream.🐾🐈‍⬛💔

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Time to trade dayjob deadlines for storyboards🎉
☕ Coffee first. Any good #FridayReads? Hope to finish Bunny before the Giller winner is announced next week.
Here’s to weekend joy & magic ✨.
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Bunny with possible last bloom as Canadian🍁winter nears:

😂😂

😁💗

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A week ago, I said goodbye to my beloved 13🐾
I like to imagine he's now chasing light itself🔆 But any second, he'll start knocking over celestial coffee cups or glasses—ensuring I don’t read or write too long without giving him attention. ✍️📚
#ThankfulThursday #CatMom #WritersLife

All venom, no vision. #poilievre #cdnpoli

Wow! LAST chapter. That's something to celebrate🎈🎈🎈🎈
I'm at 42060 words--editorially strangled that midpoint & blew past it...at last✍️🗡️

Well now, you got me curious! Also, I LOVE this song!
Wishing I understood German--I'll add it to my road trip songlist & ask my friend Eva to translate during our road trip next summer...something to look forward to after seeing our first dusting of snow on the ground this morning❄️

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Happy Humpday🐪 🌿✨
Posting a #writerslife spin, to keep it fresh. Maybe I'll lean into words & wisdom…Here's to positive change, love💗, creativity✍️🎨, compassion & kindness! AND coffee☕!
Let's change the world with our words!
#WriterWednesday #WordsMatter #KindnessMatters

Hmm, I'd love to hear more about growing peppers inside. Grow lights? I'm in eastern Canada which means my days of my own fresh produce are ending soon (except Kale). I moved my basil inside yesterday-remaining herbs are ok till December maybe, mint will croak on the coldest February day🍃.

YouTube video by 22 Minutes Mark Carney has some unexpected trick-or-treaters... | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Pierre Poilievre wanted to defund the CBC but I bet he'd settle for just getting #22Minutes taken off the air. More great work from that show with @markcritch.bsky.social (DJT) and The Kids in the Hall's Mark McKinney (Mark Carney).

...maybe...

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I know: I'm late. I hosted my local writers' group last night.
Also, some days deserve silence so we can remember why we can speak freely.
#RemembranceDay #VeteransDay #Freedom #Peace #Ally

Nov 11th #RemembranceDay in Canada🍁& #VeteransDay in the US--a day we honour, respect, remember & appreciate the sacrifices of our veterans.
Sadly, #veterans are needed to confront fascism again in many parts of the world, including Trump's America.
#LestWeForget
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Image: Banksy😢

Why Canadian author Louise Penny won’t be going to the U.S. In March, best-selling Canadian author Louise Penny wrote in a Facebook post that she didn’t feel she could enter the U.S. after its ‘unprovoked trade war against Canada.’ She speaks to The National’s...

Grateful for authors like Penny who stand to defend our sovereignty against #Trump's hostile, economic war on us. This holiday season: #BuyCanadian🍁
Dear Santa🎅: please bring me a copy of Black Wolf🙏
Defending justice when it's convenient only is phony. #cozymystery #books
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...