All work and no play makes Donna a very grumpy mom and partner. Some of my projects still have me sitting with a laptop open, and usually on my lap. Others require different machines… a sewing machine… a hand-sander… a video camera…
my book
I’m not ready to share too much about this yet. But I’m making progress. Perhaps I’ll start to blog about it in the winter…
my hobbies
A couple years ago I stumbled onto Craigslist. I think I was looking for an out-of-print book. Oh dear. Searching the “free stuff” section became a daily addiction for months. Honestly, when someone posted an ad giving away a “huge bag of fabric remnants” I lost all focus… all capacity to write… the need to eat. All I could focus on being the first person to the house with the free fabric! I was equally drawn to free tiles, free tools, free arts and crafts supplies… I now have more projects than there are weekends in a year and thankfully, my addiction is under control. Check out pictures of what I’ve collected and made with free stuff.
my activist filmmaking
It feels almost a lifetime ago. In the 80s and 90s I was a documentary filmmaker. And technically, I guess, as late as 2004 when I made Little Boy Boy, an 8-minute doc about the over-prescription of psychotropic drugs to kids.
But my life as a filmmaker has, for the most part in the last decade been stuck in the development phase. Writing the film treatments. For almost 10 whole years I tried, ultimately in vain, to find a broadcaster for Vaccine Nation, a documentary about the fear-mongering that accompanies the world of childhood diseases and vaccines.
I still have lots of ideas, but until I win “the big one,” this aspect of my life and work will remain under-developed!
my health blog
As a self-employed writer back in 2005 I had more free time than I could fill with sitting in coffee shops, so I started a blog focused on one of my favourite past-times: challenging big pharma. This is an archive of what I wrote back in the day, when my time was free(er).