Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Pasta of the Day

    Once upon a time, I read an interview with the chef, Jamie Oliver. It was around the time that he was trying to get schools to sell healthy food in their cafeterias, and he was quite negative about fast food. The interviewer was skeptical and insisted that JO must eat fast food once in a…

  • The Green Herd Grows

    Some of you may have noticed that I have an affection for vintage sewing machines, and that I particularly like the green machines. Just to recap the rest of the Green Herd, here’s the Arrow and here are the Singer 185, the Elna Supermatic (actually there are two Elna Supermatics, but only one is green)…

  • Goodreads and Books

    Well, I finally have moseyed over to Goodreads and started to poke around. I had signed up last year (you can find me right here) to host some contests, selected a bunch of my books and not really had time to go through things. This past weekend, I had the brilliant idea that I’d add…

  • Enough of Winter

    Every year, around this time, I get fed up with winter. This year, the feeling seems to be a bit more intense. I’m not sure why as winter has been pretty much a non-event here this year. At any rate, I’m always ready for gardens and flowers and colour at the end of February, and…

  • Phew!

    Home again, after teaching a full day workshop at Toronto Romance Writers on Saturday. I think it went well – I had fun, anyways – but now it’s back to my regular writing schedule. I like to teach and interact with people. It gets me out of my little writing cave and always gives me…