Laurie May
Laurie teaches Grade 4 at Island Lake Public School in Orangeville and writes in her spare time. She lives in Mono and looks for the humour in everyday country life. Check out her blog “Two Blue Boots”.
From “In the Hills” to “On the Hills”
Dec 8, 2016These Two Blue Boots are moving on to find new adventures.
I Can’t See
Dec 9, 2015There is a world wide conspiracy to print important instructions, directions and descriptions in smaller and smaller fonts!
House For Sale / The Power Of Positive Thinking
Sep 29, 2015Modern-day urban myth dictates that if you bury a plastic statue of Saint Joseph upside down in your yard, your home will sell very quickly.
Humans of Orangeville
Aug 5, 2015“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt
I Fell off my Horse
Jun 25, 2015“Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all”
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Shirley May
Feb 7, 2015Your life is the story you are leaving behind for others to read. Make every word count.
Pierrette Raymond
Country Gal Goes to the City
Dec 1, 2014“When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is secrecy, there is luxury, there is fantasy, there is comfort, and there is reassurance.”
Diane von Furstenberg
Thank You Readers
Jun 29, 2014“It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.”
Author Unknown
Ignorance is Bliss
May 6, 2014“Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.” Cheri Erdman
Providence for the Playwright
Apr 9, 2014“Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.” Ovid
Gaining Weight and Losing Pants
Feb 5, 2014I keep trying to lose weight but it keeps finding me.
Author Unknown
Resolution Roadblock
Jan 6, 2014I used to think city driving was difficult. It didn’t take me long to discover that rural driving has its own unique set of challenges. Let me elaborate…
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
Dec 19, 2013Christmas is not really about the tree. It’s about the people that surround the tree – and “home” is wherever you feel loved.
No Time for Banana Bread
Nov 6, 2013Little did we know we would slowly discover that “country folk” are the hardest working people on the face of the Earth.