Author Archives: JC


The facts, complicit;

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expiation, catharsis?

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altruistic warning or

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But why speak of it:

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Otherwise, where’s the drama.

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This cannot end well.

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a conspiracy of dread.

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Between actor and writer,

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stakes them as her own.

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unadorned on a bare stage,

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A second woman,

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lend her language urgency.

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ERs, ICUs, IVs

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her own crown of thorns.

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JC’s Op Ed Article on talking with Children about Alzheimer’s disease

Please go to this link at the Hamilton Spectator of January 17, 2011, to read JC’s article, which appeared in papers across Canada, from the Montreal Gazette to the Calgary Herald. http://www.thespec.com/opinion/editorial/article/474494–let-children-in-the-alzheimer-s-tent
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the dark aura of her grief,

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One woman wears words,

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Death does not take holidays.

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Christmas garlands, tinsel-draped;

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beside the toll road.

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stranded in weeds, untended

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A shrine’s wooden cross,

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which is the fairest of them…

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Mirrored, mirrored on the bay,

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the spectrum of flames.

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January was Alzheimer’s month

An exciting month for JC. She welcomed the opportunity from the Ottawa Public Library to give a dramatic reading of her play for children about dementia, What my grandma means to say, at two branches. On January 11, she met 75 grades 3,4 and 5 students from Jockvale Public School at the Ruth E. Dickinson […]
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Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors

JC is quoted in Ottawa This Week's coverage of the Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Authors Contest: see http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/article/926529--last-chance-to-become-an-awesome-author
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framed by strands of cirrus clouds;

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Flawless complexion,

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headland pines in silhouette.

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