Coulda Woulda Shoulda

I'm heading out tonight to this event: http://www.jhr.ca/en/getinvolved_n4r.php Nights for Rights I'm excited to go for a good cause. I'm intrigued about bidding on the auction, especially what David's Tea will have on offer. I'm hoping it will help me feel a little closer to the big G-Town reunion I'm missing that's going on in London as I write. I'm certain I will drink my recommended daily drink intake (that is, according to my doctor who I saw yesterday, 9 drinks) in the evening. Happy Weekend.

I was moved in many ways at the opening gala of the International Festival of Authors last night. Hearing Dubliner Roddy Doyle speak in his lovely lilt made me want to jump on the next plane and fly back to the green Isle. He reminded me too, how culturally rich a nation Ireland is. How humour plays a role in almost everything they do. How some of the world's best story tellers come from there. How I'm not sure I could ever replicate - even just a little - the experience I had in the Irish publishing industry. And maybe that's okay. I was also privileged to speak to the talented Canadian director, writer and actor Don McKellar and let him know IN PERSON just how deeply his movie Last Night affected me. But most importantly, I found a charity that I want to actually work with. Not to say that there are charities that I WOULDN'T work with, just that this organisation has got me mobilized in a way I've not thought of before. "PEN Canada assists writers around the...