Leaping to the Top!

Congratulations to Tracey Riddell-Ireland, the winner in my 'By Leaps and Bounds' photo contest! Her beautiful artwork got the most votes, but in my opinion, this contest was full of winners. I came out the biggest winner, because you readers lifted my spirits all summer long with your wonderful entries and stories about how you …

Leap into History!

It's been a great week for my 'By Leaps and Bounds Photo Contest'--I've just received two more entries! You can see all the entries on my Facebook page, and vote for your favourite there, too. Both photos below are by Larry Leitner of Michigan, USA, and were taken May 31, 2010. Writes Larry, "This lady …

Leaping at the Lake

I've always believed that art inspires art, and here's a beautiful example of that. These two photos, the latest entries for my By Leaps and Bounds Photo Contest, were taken by artist Tracey Riddell-Ireland at Bennett Lake, Ontario. "I once said that I found your work to be inspirational," she writes. "These two photos represent …

‘Leap’ by Heather Grace Stewart “engages, entertains, enlivens.”

'Leap by Heather Grace Stewart (ISBN 978-0-557-29619-4) Review by UK Poet Tom Phillips (Various Artists) Following on from 2008’s Where the Butterflies Go and to some extent picking up some of the threads and moods from that collection (and, indeed, the odd poem, such as the elegantly fragile ‘Forecast’, itself now cast in a new …