Author Archives: clubfredbaja

How to Eat an Elephant

Hello again from Home! Is there anything you’ve ever wanted to do but the endeavor just seemed too large, too mind-numbingly, eye-poppingly overwhelming that you couldn’t imagine yourself actually completing it? It would be like trying to eat an elephant. … Continue reading

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Lands of ‘as’

Hello again from Home! Looks like another winter locked in snow and ice for Prez and me. Luckily, we did manage to nip away for some sun time on a little trip I like to call, “Journey to the Land … Continue reading

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Girl Power?

Hello again from Home! Am I a feminist? I don’t know. To me, the word ‘feminism’ seems dated and yet there are plenty of places in the world where women lack basic human rights, where their voices are silenced, where … Continue reading

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Forgotten Bears…a love story

Hello from somewhere else! Tempus fugit. Time flies. It does fly but it also crawls, particularly when you are rewriting chapter ten for the seventeenth time. The manuscript is finished. It is in the hands of my agent and editor. … Continue reading

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Pattern-ity

Hello again from Home! I had this big camping blog planned, and I still plan to post it with bonus photos of baby bears but lately my head’s been awsirl, (not technically a word, by the way), with thoughts about … Continue reading

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No Kids, No Pets

Hello again from, (yet another new), home! Good thing Mom keeps our address written in pencil. Yup. Once again, we have relocated. This time the impetus, as you may have gathered from the last Coconut Chronicle, was the very young … Continue reading

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You’ve Never Been 23

Hello again from Home! Ah to be young! To come home on Friday, after a grueling week at a meaningless job and celebrate the fact you now have two whole days to annoy your upstairs neighbours and keep them awake … Continue reading

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Your Life…now with 50% less privacy!

Hello again from Home! I’m playing a bit of hooky this morning. Shh, don’t tell the boss! Oh wait…never mind. Yesterday’s writing session was intense…and long. I finally pulled myself away from the laptop at 10pm, mind still whirling. I … Continue reading

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The Winter of Our Discontent

Hello again from home! Today is the shortest day of the year. Or the longest night. You can decide which sounds best, though it’s not really one of those ‘is the glass half empty or half full?’ kind of things … Continue reading

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Hiatus schmiatus

Hello again from Home! A very snowy home, I might add. (Actually, I did add). I’m on hiatus. I like that word ‘hiatus’; it sounds so much more professional and important than ‘doing nothing’. Book one is out of my … Continue reading

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