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Find your voice
WingWords writing groups offer a safe, encouraging space for you to uncover an idea or theme you have been waiting to discover. Come and explore OR continue working on a project you have already begun. Find Your voice - An eight week online workshop to help the writers discover their next idea or theme. Sessions are 2.5 hours long. Explore that idea you didn't know was waiting inside you. 10 weeks 8 - 10 writers 2.5 hours online Care for the Caregiver - Come and fill y
Alana Shields
Oct 19, 20251 min read


Fall Beginning...Pink Pearl Erasers and Pinchy New Shoes
When the first crisp kick of autumn air hits my lungs, I’m taken right back: Pink Pearl erasers, pinchy new shoes, and a schoolbag full...
Alana Shields
Sep 9, 20243 min read


The B Side
Memoir When my mother died, she left behind boxes of minutiae and memories, among them: programs from every play I’d done, all her driver’s licenses, birthday cards, an early letter of employment, and Dad’s faded company ID. There were old bank books, mortgage records, hundreds of photos, and tiny newspaper clippings of obituaries for people I never knew. And, my record collection. As a little kid, I had a collection of 45-inch children’s records with titles like “The Synco
Alana Shields
Dec 16, 20234 min read


The Wing: Part 3
I wish I could say I returned home to Toronto and got right down to fanning my newly rekindled writing spark after visiting Harriet that...
Alana Shields
Oct 7, 20234 min read
Thoughts fly swiftly on the wings of intuitions." ... Learn to listen to 'the still small voice'. "
- Harriet M Schraeder
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