Diane Girard
Diane Girard writes personal essays, short stories, longer fiction and creative non-fiction and lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
Diane's short story collection Waves, is available from Volumes Publishing at https://volumesdirect.com/products/waves
Diane can be contacted at digirar@gmail.com
For the Holiday Season, Give Me Real Books
An eBook just isn’t much fun. Where’s the tactile thrill in holding a plastic object or in fiddling with a screen? For me, only one plastic object could fit into the thrill category and it’s not a book of any kind. But, as Gilda Radner was wont to say “never mind,” this is about books, real books. more »
Why Not Take the Slow Lane?
I thought about the Kindle and the iPad, but I didn’t think about them long. I’m sure something better, that incorporates a bazillion features and will function like a personal computer, a telephone, a television, an e-book, and possibly a food-o-matic will soon be touted. When it arrives, I’ll think about it, slowly. more »
December 2009 CultureWatch
Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage is important because it helps to regender early American history which remains overly focused on generals and male political leaders. Lori Hahnel’s collection of short fiction, Nothing Sacred, is spare, subtle and literary but not pretentious in any way, and very pleasing. Now in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge, give the reader a deep sense of the connectedness of the small town and its inhabitants, and of Olive’s place in the scheme of things. more »
Magical Money Trees
Diane Girard writes:
"It's like a religion — you believe in it, or you don’t. I believe that
not everyone can become rich. However, some of us may manage to live
out our lives without losing all our savings. I plan to be one of those
people beca… more »