Rom-Coms with Real Mess, Real Magic, Real Heart.
from Where the Butterflies Go This Christmas, I am telling my inner Supermom to leave the building. In the pre-Christmas chaos, I will remember to breathe while juggling the buying flying shopping shipping put-it-on-plastic happy hoopla pot luck and good luck trying to squeeze into last year’s little black dress. Multi-tasking to the point of …
In the introduction to her latest book, Canadian poet Heather Grace Stewart describes what follows as ‘my small adventure’. In many ways, that’s a fair enough opening gambit. As she’s shown in Leap and Where The Butterflies Go, Heather is an accomplished and supple lyricist of the everyday and of the small miracles and telling …
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This is about the only time I'd ever say that--as the author of a book titled, 'Leap,' I'd say I'm a pretty big fan of jumping in and going for it. But "Don't Leap!" is definitely the appropriate title for the latest entry in my "By Leaps and Bounds" Photo Contest. This photo was taken …
Thank you, dear readers. Through sales of 'Leap' in March 2010 alone (its first month out there in the world), I was able to donate to Unicef's Gift of Education program, and we sent another child to school. But so much more could be accomplished, and it doesn't take much. Please share with others your …
'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 …
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Heather Grace Stewart 