It’s the middle of January and snow is falling here in Aylmer, Quebec. My kids’ hometown. My fellow military brats understand that last, as in, moved so much while growing up that we don’t claim our own “hometown” (See Home. Again and Again about that.) I posted my 2024 Reading List recently, but am not … More 2025 January Read and Review
2024 Reading List Here we go. The years keep on chunking by. Luckily, so do books; reading them is one of the ways I spend my share of planetary turns around the sun. A pleasurable use, with never enough time to do it as much as I want. Like anything pleasurable, I guess! So here’s … More 2024 Reading List
You know you’re a military brat when… There are many ways to finish this thought. One way that I experienced this past week with my husband (and former brat himself, now a retired military veteran) while on a couple days getaway, is this. You are travelling, sight-seeing in a new area about a day’s drive … More You Know You’re a Military Brat when…
What is it about being 10-11 years old that is so magical? The older I get the more fondly I remember Goose Bay, Labrador. Here’s another excerpt about that favourite base (from “Camp Follower One Army Brat’s Story” by Michele Sabad : “Now, for me, Goose Bay, Labrador was awesome, no matter what my parents … More Goose Bay – Favourite Place and Time
Reading List 2023 January What is it about January? I haven’t had a good start to a year since 2020, and we all remember how that panned out. (For details from this author’s perspective on 2020, check out “Lost Year A Pandemic Diary”.) But back to this January of 2024. Not a good start due … More 2023 – Reading List
Yes, I am still writing stories. No, I haven’t been very prolific for awhile. You know, life and all. But today I was pleased to find my short story, “I am Ken’s Beer Stein” published in the Ottawa Independent Writer’s group yearly anthology, “Connections”. And more than pleased to discover that the first review of … More I Am (Still) an Author
An Author Experiment 2023 is more than half over. Now in my mid-60s, my own life is more than half over. No regrets, just surprise sometimes as I contemplate that. Like most of you, the past few years have been challenging, but again, like most of you, (hopefully), I’ve come through and am enjoying the … More Book Sales Direct
I’ve been elsewhere in my life for a few months, even almost years. Elsewhere from my retirement avocation of author, that is. You remember Michele Sabad, the former army brat? The air force wife and hockey mom? Now retired in her kids’ hometown of Aylmer, Quebec? The one who wrote 3 books about that journey, … More May 2023 and the living is (getting) easy(er)
It’s here! 2023. So it’s also here – my reviews of books I read in 2022. January I needed dependable reading to start another crappy lockdown year. At least catching the latest virus variant and getting over it so easily like any mild cold was a plus for this January. So off to a known … More 2022 – Reading List
I’ve been retired for long enough that I no longer think of myself as retired. I’m simply living my life. My first years of retirement were busy establishing that new life, a life filled with hopes and dreams collected over the previous working lifetime, a life I was eager to achieve. I became a published … More Retirement Musings Year 6
Stevie Szabad, Author 