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Christine Steeves Speakman

writer, poet/artist, editor, reader, reviewer
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    • Longer works
      • Justifiable Murder – in under 200 words
      • Keeper of the Shadows
      • Pieces of Jules
      • Prey
      • Phineas Tom
      • Poetry Book 1 – editing
      • Poetry Book 2 – writing
      • Derrick
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      • Agoraphobic Mysteries
      • Baby Animal Farm
      • Bairies
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      • Frederick Stevens
      • Gambler
      • Ghost, The
      • Hollow, The
      • Jack in the Box
      • Let Sleeping Wolves Lie
      • Meet Me At Midnight
      • Murder Maze
      • Mystery Manor
      • Personal Assistant Felix
      • Protectors
      • Quinn O’Grady
      • Sir Sampson
      • Stumblers
      • Tea Shop Time
      • Twenty-Four Hours
      • Vampire – Seasonal
        • Winter – Santa’s a vampire
      • Vampire Therapist
      • Wannabees
      • Warnings Granny Never Gave
      • What’s an editor to do
  • Romantic Heart
    • Iris’ Romance Notes
  • Romantic Heart WIPs
    • Longer Works – Romance
      • Iris
        • Midnight Find – reworking (Iris)
        • Tina & Patrick x 2 (Iris)
        • Charlie & Charlie (Iris)
        • Mick & Maggie (Iris)
      • Violet
        • Interference…Ian & ? (Violet)
      • Hazel
      • Myrtle
      • Oliver
    • Short Works – Romance
      • Iris (Shorts)
      • Violet Shorts
      • Hazel Shorts
      • Myrtle Shorts
      • Oliver Shorts
  • Heat with Humour
  • Heat with Humour WIPs
    • Longer Works – Heat
      • A Year in the Life Of…
        • Connie and Boris
        • Cassie
        • Patrice
    • Short Works – Heat
      • Shorts
      • Self Worship
      • Experiment/Creating Love
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    • Book Review Archives 2006-2016
      • Fantasy
      • General Fiction
      • Keep The Lights On
      • Mystery
      • Non-Fiction
      • Romance
      • Science Fiction
  • Reviewed Authors A-F
    • A
      • Collection – Absent Willow Review
      • Jack Adler
      • Tomi Akinyanmi
      • Jeanne Allen
      • Preston L. Allen
      • Anastasia Amor
      • Bonnie M. Anderson
      • E.J. Anderson
      • Donna Andrews
      • Mary Andrews
      • Farhan Ansari
      • Robert Appleton
      • Alastair J. Archbald
      • J Armin & N Moore
      • Eden Arthur
      • David Artuso
      • Eve Asbury
      • Jude Atkins
      • Lena Austin
    • B
      • Heather Beck
      • Jay Bell
      • Raymond Benson
      • Ken Blaisdell
      • J.S. Breukelaar
    • C
      • Lorna Collins and Larry K. Collins
      • Bruce Cooke
      • Kevin Craig
      • Adam Croft
      • P.W. Cross
    • D
      • C.S. Davidson
      • Mark DeGasperi
      • Aaron Dries
      • Anna del C. Dye
    • E
    • F
      • Robert Fate
      • Barbarella Fokos
      • Patricia Fry
  • Reviewed Authors G-L
    • G
      • Teel James Glenn
      • Mark Allan Gunnells
    • H
      • Megan Kelley Hall
      • Anne Rothman-Hicks and Ken Hicks
    • I
    • J
      • Leonard Jacobson
      • Dave Jeffery
    • K
      • Ruth Karas
      • Brian Kavanagh
      • Todd Keisling
      • Kristen Kelly
    • L
      • Penny Lockwood
  • Reviewed Authors M-S
    • M
      • Verna McKinnon
    • N
    • O
      • A.J. O’Connell
    • P
      • Thea Phipps
    • Q
    • R
      • Dr. Bob Rich
    • S
      • Lea Schizas
      • Dave Stanton
  • Reviewed Authors T-Z
    • T
    • U
    • V
      • Christine Verstraete
    • W
      • Don Westenhaver
      • Bradford Wheler
      • Karen Wiesner and Chris Spindler
      • Eric Wilder
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      • V. Gilbert Zabel
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Rambles from a Mad Mind or Creative Crazies

April 5, 2011 christinesteevesspeakman 2 Comments

Hello, It’s me the crazed creative person who flies by the seat of her pants. Normally, I’m quite calm when…

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Silence

March 17, 2011 christinesteevesspeakman 15 Comments

My high school English teacher, Mr. Thwaites, challenged me to take pen to paper and write in the silence of…

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Well, it’s been over 2 weeks

January 15, 2011 christinesteevesspeakman

Life happens and time flies. These are favourite sayings when we find we haven’t kept up with promises or just…

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I’m coming back

October 12, 2010 christinesteevesspeakman

I’ll be back in the next two weeks. I’m creating my weekly planner…who says creativity doesn’t require planning 🙂

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Organization

May 3, 2010 christinesteevesspeakman

Yes, creativity requires planning and organization. Doesn’t that sound like fun? What has the mystery of freedom and wonder actually…

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Interruptions

April 26, 2010 christinesteevesspeakman 1 Comment

Whether your creativity is for pleasure or profit, at some point it will be interrupted. There will be phone calls,…

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Fun Friday Photo – Spring in the Air

April 23, 2010 christinesteevesspeakman

Photo by Christine and Philip Speakman (please do not copy without asking or giving acknowledgement, Thank you)

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Monday Fun Photo – Magic of Bunnies

April 5, 2010 christinesteevesspeakman

Photo by Christine and Philip Speakman (please do not copy without asking or giving acknowledgement, Thank you)

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Thursday Fun Photo – Simplicity

April 1, 2010 christinesteevesspeakman

Photo by Christine and Philip Speakman (please do not copy without asking or giving acknowledgement, Thank you)

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What my child taught me about creativity

March 29, 2010 christinesteevesspeakman 1 Comment

Freedom. Freedom to express myself. Freedom to have fun. Freedom to not be perfect. Freedom to imagine. Freedom to ignore…

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Site Note:

This is my little corner of the vast internet world. It’s my space, my face to the world, it was created to…to? To, what exactly? What was my intention when I purchased the site’s name, registered it, rent cyber space for it, spend time on it?

I first came to the internet to figure out how to get published and ended up a reviewer, copy editor, editor, blogger, writer, still reviewing.

I don’t know who all sees me and I’ve been asking the question – does it matter if anyone does?

The truth is…it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if 1 or a billion sees me, or you, I’ll/you’ll always see myself/yourself. What’s that line…wherever you go; there you are. We all carry our own baggage.

There’s no escaping who we are…I don’t want to escape myself. I want to be me and with that, here I am, all of me.

 

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What’s New

May 8, 2025

  • this is feeling like a leave me alone day

May 7, 2025

  • Sunny and windows open, it’s been a relaxed day
  • I like pear juice

May 6, 2025

  • Not sure, everything’s moving in the right direction, but not sure I’m feeling it

May 5, 2025

  • Even known change can be unsettling. Don’t fear change.
  • Let the stress go; don’t hold it in to grow and take root.

May 4, 2025

  • guess I’ll be as corny as the next – may the 4th be with you

May 3, 2025

  • Time to look in the direction I am going, want to go

May 2, 2025

  • You might have noticed I stepped back a year yesterday, LOL, how many of us would like to step back 1 year? What would you gain/change, but more importantly, what would you lose? Would it be worth it?

May 1, 2025

  • overcast drizzle first of May, but my window is open

April 30, 2025

  • sometimes you have to let April leave like a lion, a tired worn out lion

April 29, 2025

  • My Liberal party won!
  • There’s always tomorrow

April 28, 2025

  • Monday and that means it’s my fun reading day

April 27, 2025

  • Movie day
  • Fun day
  • Relax day

April 26, 2025

  • Taking it easy today and it worked

April 25, 2025

  • Hard website decisions, have to remember making them years ago wasn’t a waste, it brought me to here today at a complete decision on who I am, every bit of me. I don’t need a domain name for that.

April 24, 2025

  • Woke too early; too tired; too worn out; slept too late. Maybe I’ll get used to it

April 23, 2025

  • It’s a way too early day start, nap later
  • No nap, starting to fade, bed early

April 22, 2025

  • I wonder if rabbit-holes are like the internet holes we maze our way through, maybe we should call it ant or termite tunnels, mind you those are very industrious. Rabbits don’t have holes they have burrows. And there I go randomly travelling down something to nowhere.

April 21, 2025

  • Is it too corny to say I’m figuring out what’s internally important to me
  • The sun showed up

April 20, 2025

  • The season of blessing whether you are celebrating Easter, Passover, or one I am not familiar with. Enjoy

April 19, 2025

  • Weather temps are nuts…how would you write this and be believed: muggy 20c then 6c within 24 hours

April 18, 2025

  • A holiday weekend of belief for many

April 17, 2025

  • Grocery day before a holiday long weekend is frantic

April 16, 2025

  • Did I miss a day?

April 15, 2025

  • Just realizing the bullet points don’t show up on screen
  • Love the moon, it stops me in my tracks

April 14, 2025

  • living with fears
  • Moving through the day

April 13, 2025

  • Choices

April 12, 2025

  • grocery deliveries
  • tidying
  • create

April 11, 2025

  • Taking much needed dedicated me time

April 10, 2025

  • Life needed a too early rise and then the sleep in didn’t help afterwards

April 9, 2025

  • Slept in which is beyond my ultima function time
  • Routine done

April 8, 2025

  • Bright skies, cold winds
  • Determined to stay on track

April 7, 2025

  • Pushing for that one step more

April 6, 2025

  • Routine

March 27 – April 5, 2025

  • Chaos
  • illness
  • trying
  • catching up

March 26, 2025

  • Easier start
  • Winter temps returned, but not in double digits
  • Semi-cloudy day so far

March 25, 2025

  • Too early, too late re-sleep, not as rough as yesterday

March 24, 2025

  • Just a rough day

March 23, 2025

  • Bright blue skies and because it’s March possible snow flurries later
  • Routine
  • Played UNO

March 22, 2025

  • Family birthdays

March 21, 2025

  • Simply worn out

March 20, 2025

  • I cooked, did some dishes, got bored.
  • Weather is as overcast as my energy
  • Blah and dull

March 19, 2025

  • Bright blue skies, woke up to house feeling that over warm
  • Updated banking
  • Wednesdays are review days…maybe I’ll get some reading in
  • No reading but I did make grill cheeses

March 18, 2025

  • Missing dad

March 17, 2025

  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2025

  • Overcast, rainy

March 15, 2025

  • Overcast, calling for rain
  • Some sun

March 14, 2025

  • Payday
  • Paid bills
  • Re-arranged furniture
  • Re-organized some small areas

March 13, 2025

  • Sunny blue skies, colder temps
  • Puttering around
  • Yet, another idea is floating around in my head…it won’t leave

March 12, 2025

  • Progress
  • New ways to clean, hey it’s something

March 11, 2025

  • Fought dust bunnies and their salt rocks

March 10, 2025

  • Looks like blue skies…at 7:48am
  • Need to ignore news and even social media in morning…oiiii

March 9, 2025

  • Dad would have been 94 today

March 8, 2025

  • bright blue sunny sky
  • front webpage update
  • feeling tad dizzy

March 7, 2025

  • Ate chocolate

March 6, 2025

  • Not a whole lot

March 5, 2025

  • Cleared and rained
  • Updated front page and pulled cards
  • it’s foggy like London in the Jack the Ripper movies, could have said Mist like Stephen King

March 4, 2025

  • Headache around eyes
  • afternoon nap
  • not much more

March 3, 2025

  • Not much today

March 2, 2025

  • Made pancakes
  • in a giddy-good mood…why? who knows and there’s better reasons why I shouldn’t be, but, there ya go
  • Didn’t do much, waiting

March 1, 2025

  • It’s cold and so far still blue sky sunny
  • Full virus scan day and back up day
  • Maintenance done
  • Bit of a low day

Friday, February 28, 2025

  • Paid bills
  • woke way too early
  • screamed at tv…ugh
  • want to go to bed and it’s only 7:47pm

Thursday, February 27, 2025

  • Not much

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

  • Better sleep and wake up hour
  • Weather forecase – more snow, maybe it will miss my area
  • Bright sunlight blue skies, 0c

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

  • Up way too early, kinda threw the entire day off

Monday, February 24, 2025

  • Morning cards all pulled and uploaded
  • I’m up and starting in with routine
  • It’s another dull start to the day but temperatures are warmer, so far

Sunday, February 23, 2025

  • Timing of routine doesn’t matter as long as you do it
  • Started the mid-winter clean up, clear out

Saturday, February 22, 2025

  • dizzy spell, feeling ill, hope to bed after routine
  • Remembered to use my Cubii & how much I enjoyed it
  • Made a second grocery delivery for today from same store, one day I’ll remember everything in one order
  • Remembered to do this post…and front page 😉

Friday, February 21, 2025

  • Forgot to do this as the day went along
  • Update WIPs listings
  • Dishes

Thursday, February 20, 2025

  • Added a few more WIPs pages and Romance WIPs pages
  • Wrote a few blog postings.
  • Add in blog post pages, supposedly to ease writing since set-up is done.
  • Realizing I don’t mind if people see my site, like it or whatever, but it’s not why I have created it.
  • Removed the share buttons from my site, sorta want just my little corner, if someone wants to share, they can copy and paste.
  • Cat feed
  • Dishes done…from last night
  • Dull weather, light flurries, no sun, feels like -12c….oh joy

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

  • Added list of short stories I’m working on
  • Uploaded today’s pulled cards
  • Learned how to do something easier
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