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My Recent Articles

• Meet Your Match
  More Magazine article on going to a matchmaker
• No Escape From Pain
  Globe review of Josephine Hart's The Truth About Love
• Superstars and me
  Globe review of Shinan Govani's Bold Face Names
• Fall book preview
  Global News online Fall book preview
• A Bountiful Harvest: Highlights of a fall season full of riches
  Ottawa Citizen fall books 2009 preview
• A Forgiving and Beautiful Landscape
  Globe & Mail review of Monique Proulx's Wildlives
• Loneliness done so well, it's uplifting
  National Post review of Lisa Moore's February
• Loss of a Family Man
  Ottawa Citizen review of Lisa Moore's February
• These Women Take Flight
  Globe review of The Factory Voice by Jeanette Lynes
• Darby Discovers Canada
  Globe review of A Walk Through the WIndow a YA novel by K.C. Dyer
• Mom & Me on the Q.T.
  Personal essay on Rona Maynard's Mother/Daughter website
• The Memory Thief
  Globe review of Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Create a classic Christmas dinner without spending a fortune
  ctv.ca Holiday guide feature
• Spa at Home: Tips to help you escape holiday madness
  ctv.ca Holiday guide feature
• The Big List of Books for Holiday Shopping
  ctv.ca Holiday guide feature
• A Muskoka Gem
  Globe review of GG award-winning The Landing, John Ibbitson
• Holiday fun for the kids: Skating the best rinks in Canada
  ctv.ca - Holiday guide feature
• How To Find Holiday Travel Deals
  ctv.ca - Holiday guide feature
• Channel your craftier side to create DIY gifts
  ctv.ca - Holiday guide feature
• Ridings to Watch: Five races with strong candidates
  ctv.ca - Canadian federal election feature
• Who is Sarah Palin?
  ctv.ca - Bio of the GOP VP hopeful
• A bountiful harvest
  Edmonton Journal fall book preview
• This fall's big books
  Ottawa Citizen fall books preview
• Love and joy, pain and misery, drugs and hugs
  Globe & Mail review of Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
• Small-town madness
  Ottawa Citizen review of Nathan Whitlock's A Week of This
• My Methy, Methy Life
  Globe & Mail review of two young adult books on drug addiction; Tweak by Nic Sheff and Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky
• Hardly at a loss for words Diane Schoemperlen turns a tale of spurned love into a literary frolic
  Ottawa Citizen review of Diane Schoemperlen's At A Loss for Words
• Required Reading
  Ottawa Citizen Fall books preview
• Two Quebec Solitudes
  Globe & Mail review of How to Become an Angel by Jean Barbe and Augustino and the Choir of Destruction by Marie-Claire Blais
• If Only...
  Ottawa Citizen review of The First Man in My Life
• Scary Stories for Smart Teens
  Globe & Mail review of two Young Adult books.
• Moving on from the Wreckage
  Globe and Mail review of After the Wreck, Joyce Carol Oates
• Exotic and Familiar
  tyee.ca review of Caroline Adderson's Pleased to Meet You
• Jewels of Revelation
  Globe & Mail review of Giller nominated Home Schooling by Carol Windley
• It's Time To Book Off
  The Citizen Weekly's Guide to Great Reading Ahead
• His Pain, Our Gain
  Globe and Mail review of Anderson Cooper's Dispatches from the Edge
• Eulogy for Znaimer's Dream
  thetyee.ca article on Bell Globemedia purchase of Chum Ltd.
• Coupland hijacks his own jPod universe ...
  Ottawa Citizen review of Douglas Coupland's Giller long-list nominated novel.
• Why Women Go To Strip Clubs
  We are acquiring power. But is it feminist or chauvinist?
• A Wrinkle in Time
  On turning 45
• The Private Lives of Men
  Confession-hungry or cave man?
• Part Rock Concert, Part Mystery
  World Youth Day stars the new pope. For me, Catholicism holds a different allure.
• Ghost of a Chance
  Globe and Mail review of Gotta Find Me An Angel by Brenda Brooks
• Cruise Control
  BC's economy thrives on Alaska Cruise business, Vancouver Courier
• Pall in the Family
  Globe and Mail review of I Am a Red Dress by Anna Camilleri
• City Celebrates Fests with Cash
  Saving Vancouver's multicultural festivals
• The Apprenticeship of a CanLit Giant
  Globe and Mail reveiw of Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer by Donez Xiques
• Adderson puts ordinary folk into extraordinary situations
  Vancouver Courier profile of writer Caroline Adderson
• Meet Me at the Magazine Counter
  Herizons Magazine commentary