a word about November

To keep with my latest trend of writing when it’s actually the next month and backdating it, here are a few highlights of November.

First, I have to acknowledge some very important people who have birthdays this month – my husband Jeffrey and my dad, Eric. And it was Kane’s birthday month too, my boy is now 5 years old.

As I mentioned in my last post, I was planning to visit home (Fox Harbour) and I did. While I was home, the weather was very intense. So intense, in fact, that storm surge took away a very prominent building in my home community. The Loder’s Point Museum where I served as a student interpreter right out of highschool is now gone.

The building was the old fishing merchant premises in town. Years ago my Grandfather did the grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony for this building, and many years before that, he fed his family by trading with these very merchants. The town has a lot of history with this set of buildings, and now one of them is decimated. I’ll have pictures attached at the end of this post.

Also this month, in keeping with my ‘big 2025’ I’ve been blessed with, my very first officially published book came out. As of November 15, Cotton Gloves and Rusted Anchors has been available on Chapters Indigo, Memorial University Press, and locally here in Goose Bay at the Terrington COOP, Slippers n’ Things, and the Visitor Information Centre. The Newfoundland Labrador Public Library system has also purchased a large amount of them, so they’ll be distributed throughout the province’s libraries.

But more on that in my December in review, as the official launch of my book happened on December 13, and I’ll have a special post just for that.

For now, I’ll leave you, as always, with photographs that capture my month of November.

I hope you are all well and good, see you again soon.