Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Happy Valentine’s Day

    Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! Here’s hoping you have some special plans with your sweetie to celebrate the day. What’s your favourite thing to do, gift to give or gift to receive on Valentine’s Day? Is it the same choice as for other romantic occasions, or special just for this day? I’m a…

  • Finding the Balance

    As a working writer – maybe just as a working person! – I have lots of things to juggle. There’s no shortage of items on my To Do list and sometimes it’s overwhelming. First of all, there’s the writing itself. I’ve been lucky enough in recent years to have been quite consistently on deadline, i.e.…

  • Where Would You Be?

    If you could be anywhere this morning, with just the snap of your fingers, where would you be? I’m looking at a whole lot of snow and thinking that I’ve never been to Hawaii. If it could be done with a fingersnap, I’d go this morning. And take my laptop, so I could keep writing…

  • Happy 2011 – and the Ta DA! List

    Happy 2011, everyone, and welcome back to Alive & Knitting. It’s going to be a busy year – many dragons on their way to you – so we should have lots to talk about. One of the things many of us tend to do at this time of year is create a list of resolutions…

  • Happy Holidays

    Well, peeps, it’s that time of year. We’re heading into the final crunch of the holiday season, and if you’re like me, you have lots to do and lots of places to go. So, travel safely, be merry, hug the ones you love, and I’ll see you back here the first Monday of the new…