Writing Advice

Speaking of leather straps, I’ve been pondering about bootstraps lately—those handy loops on the tops of boots that help you pull them on more easily. Growing up, I often heard, “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” Well-meaning adults would use this saying to encourage me to work harder and stop being lazy. Of course, if I was slacking off or not getting my work done, they assumed it was because I didn’t understand I needed more effort.

Why I Write

I’ve been thinking a lot about when I started reading comic books. I’m not sure when it started…my mom has a tale of me teaching myself to read while on a Greyhound Bus for two and a half days going from Winnipeg to Kelowna. As the legend goes, she gave me a stack of comics when the ride started and by the time we were in the mountains, I was reading them on my own. I’m not sure how much of that is true or embellished, but it’s really my mom’s story so choose I believe it.