The thing about writing a memoir is, it gets you thinking about roots. You get to worrying. What will my family think? How will friends and various exes react? And what about the Divas of the Church, those notorious Ukrainian ladies about whom I write with love, but also with humour and irreverence? Will…
“Whatever occurs is neither the beginning nor the end.” -Pema Chodron Marge Piercy has written about ‘writer’s cats’ – the special feline friend that will snooze on your desk all afternoon as you wrangle a phrase, sculpt a paragraph, coax a chapter into full flower, or over-mix your metaphors (as I’m doing right now)…
Once, on an icy winter night, I saw a girl on the College streetcar with a big heart-shaped box of chocolates on her lap. It was a week after Valentine’s day. She was at the very front of the streetcar, and that box straddled her crotch, and her spread-out legs. I can still remember…