Writing

I have been writing as long as I can remember.  Early missives included Things I Will Never Do As A Parent (I must have been a dramatic 13 year old at the time);  Why I Hate Cocktail Parties (I was a politically-correct Hippie for that one); and more love-sick poems than I care to remember.

I love having a regular writing contract and my column on getting older keeps my creative juices flowing.  I feel like I am growing into that particular piece of writing.

•     The Next Chapter, regular column in the Montreal Gazette exploring the surprises and ironies of getting older.

•     How Are You… No, Really: How ARE You?  Opinion piece published in Globe & Mail, Facts & Arguments, July 14, 2004

•     2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium, Josh Freed and Terry Mosher; coordinating editor, published by Doubleday Canada and Simon Shuster (US edition); managed personalities and  contributions of 44 journalists.

•     You Can Come Home Again, Editorial opinion piece published by Montreal Gazette, May 1997.

•     Trak-It, Reprice-It, Software user manuals, Health Service Affiliates, writer.

•     Monthly Column, Oxford Press, 1994 – 1995.

   The Fridge Door, Monthly calendar of events for Oxford, OH, published by JST Communications, Inc., Jan – May, 1994.

•     Continuous Performance Improvement Process, Participant’s Workbook & Trainer’s Guide, Pennsylvania Power & Light, 1993, Writer, graphic and format designer.

•     Total Quality Management Implementation Teams, Participant’s Workbook & Trainer’s Guide, The Cumberland Group, 1993, Writer, graphic and format designer.

•     Soyons Pratico-Practiques  (Translation of “How to Talk Sovereignty to an Anglo”), Expression Magazine, Montreal, June 1991.

•     Au Revoir Quebec, Editorial opinion piece, La Presse, Translated by Alain Debuc, May 1991.

•     You’re Listening to CJAS – the best little radio station in town, unpublished study for Secretary of State, Promotion of Official Minority Languages, Ottawa, Ontario, May 1991.

•     Traffic Watch, weekly column in The Gazette, April 1989 – Dec. 1990;Getting There, twice weekly column in the Montreal Daily News (April 1987 – April 1989)

•     Cracking the Code: CBC Journalistic Policy, published by ACTRASCOPE, Toronto, Ontario, December 1989.

•     The Joys of Stewarding in ACTRA, co-authored with Marian Fraser, ACTRA internal publication, September 1987.

•     Confessions of a Traffic Lady, Montreal Magazine, October 1986.

•     E.R.A.: A-t-on perdu la guerre, ou une simple bataille?, translated by Claudine Vivier, La Vie en Rose, September 1982.

•     A Book About Sexual Assault, co-authored with Shirley Pettifer, published by The Montreal Health Press, July 1979 (latest revision November 1996).