Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Happy Fourth of July!

    Here’s wishing a happy Fourth to everyone south of the border. May you have a fabulous, safe, red-white-and-blue day!

  • Stuff Comes – and Stuff Goes

    This week, I’m having a stay-cation. Of course, I can’t completely stay away from the computer (or the internet!) but I’m focusing on things other than writing and publishing this week. Job one is to weed the garden and get the delivered mulch into the beds. Job two is to clean out closets. Ugh. We’ve…

  • Happy Canada Day

    Today is Canada Day, our equivalent of the American Independence Day. I think it’s cool that our celebrations are almost concurrent on this one. Here’s a wonderful piece from Tom Brokaw about Canada. The photography is beautiful and it’s quite an informative piece. Enjoy – and have a happy Canada Day!  

  • Another Interesting Book

    A while ago, I saw the movie Anonymous. If you haven’t seen it, it’s either historical fiction or historical speculation – the idea is that somebody else wrote Shakespeare’s plays, specifically a nobleman named Edward de Vere. The movie told his story. It was beautifully photographed and very evocative of Elizabethan England. The chronology of…

  • Summer Heat

    Once again, it’s hot and humid in southern Ontario. Ugh. This is really the only kind of weather that I don’t much like. I’d rather (shhh) that  it was cold outside than hot and sticky. You might think that’s because Ye Olde House doesn’t have air conditioning. It doesn’t, but it doesn’t because I’d rather…