Hey Humans! I hope this lovely Saturday finds you healthy and happy wherever in the world you might be! I just wanted to drop a note to tell anyone who was interested in reading the newest chapter of 47 ON TINDER that it's up on SUBSTACK with an audio option...read by me. : ) In fact ALL of the chapters of PART ONE that I put up on here, are up on SUBSTACK with audio. I'm going to put out a chapter a week...there are seven more...it's the longest part in the book...I mean, THE FUCKENING takes a minute. Anyhow,…

  I’ve been working on book project for many years. The book's finished and I decided to put the first seven chapters up on here. This is a bit longer than most of my posts by MANY words, but I wanted to feature a part of the book that seemed like it could also be a Novella. Because I love music so much, it's woven in the very fabric of this story...HERE is the spotify songlist for our heroine's...the inimitable CHARLIE WOOD...journey. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rJUIeQwHUbWuDSF7n4Ckd?si=xFYg94-ETW2m2R040qYz2Q Enjoy and, as always, thank you all for following along. S x       4  7…

FEBRUARY 7th, 2025 This afternoon around 4pm I was standing in the self checkout line at the C-Town Market on Broadway near 207th in New York City. In one hand I was clutching a jar of dairy free Strawberry Sorbet and in the other, a cloth bag with all the ingredients for a mushroom casserole I was going to make later for my dear friend Jason. Jolene (my dog) and I are staying with him for a while and he's been so kind that I wanted to do something nice for him...although, if anyone knows my history with cooking, I…

Hey All You Wonderful Blog Readers, I hope this finds you well and, if you're in Canada, not considering something drastic with THE TERRIBLE DARK OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. Except all you smart people in Saskatchewan who don't have to worry about it. So, I'm not sure if you guys get notified when I put up a NEWS post on this GD website, so I wanted to make sure I put out there that...after SEVEN YEARS AWAY FROM THE TORONTO CABARET STAGE...I'm doing two shows at the HISTORIC RIVOLI IN TORONTO on December 16th and 17th to start working out…

    A year ago I turned fifty-five. Once, I heard someone call fifty-five the double nickel birthday…which always reminds me of Sudbury, which is the nickel capital of Canada. Sudbury is where Canada mines it's nickel AND to celebrate that fact the town erected a giant nickel that I’m not sure is actually made of real nickel…WHICH reminds me of the trips that my mom, step-dad, gramma and I took up to Sudbury when I was little to visit gramma’s sister…and sometimes we'd also SEE the giant nickel, if I was lucky. My great aunt was a maid for…

I was supposed to be doing writing of a different kind today, but here I am…and I feel compelled to share a very big secret with you. Jolene Josephine Matthews has fairly severe anxiety. For those who don’t know her, she’s a dog. Now, to be fair, I ALSO have anxiety but felt VERY much reformed UNTIL I started working on Jo’s anxiety. Ma’am. Some would call her reactive. She is. I would also add on that she’s anxious and scared. Also true. I’m going to be even more honest and admit something controversial…this is NOT the dog I thought…

“Aunt Sharron, have you ever thought about doing a mud obstacle course” I stared at the text for about a minute. Well, of course I had. Most people have, right? We’ve thought about it, right?…considered it…weighed the pros and cons? We’ve all seen socials showing a bunch of our very capable friends…smiling…covered in mud…crossing a finish line. They look like they’re living their VERY BEST lives. Then, if we do a little research, we discover what they have to do to GET to that mud covered finish…and it’s no GD joke. These kinds of events have been going on for…

Less than a year ago, my sister Gwen called me and said I should probably go see Mom in the hospital. I will be very honest and say that my Mom and I have a complicated relationship...or very simple, depending on the way you look at it. I won't go into any details, but suffice it to say that after a lifetime of struggle, I've gotten myself to a happy place in which I usually only see my Mom at family gatherings. I don't fight with her, I don't harbour a grudge about anything...I've done and keeping doing the work...and…

…a SMALL mountain, but still. I know. Two posts. Two days in a row….but I climbed a mountain, people. I drove down the coast from Half Moon Bay to Big Sur today. The sun was shining, the car was vrooming, and Barbra has just gotten to the part of her book where she excuses Bill Clinton for “whatever happened behind closed doors at the Whitehouse”…girl…as well as her marriage to James Brolin…which is hour 46 to 47, for anyone keeping score. I’m in the home stretch of Barbra Streisand’s fifty hour memoir on Audible, in case you don’t follow me…