Jan 25, 2023 | Get To Know You
Amanda sits down for a question-and-answer session with dru’s book musings so that we, the readers, can get to know her better. What is your full name?Just Amanda Doucette. My parents never gave me a middle name. How old are you?I’m vague on that, but about 35 years...
Nov 15, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Several days before “Time to get up, sleepyhead,” drifted a male voice through the haze. “You’ve been sawing away loudly enough to wake the dead.” Where did he come from? I blinked, but could only see the icy blue eyes of a white-haired old woman glowering at me. She...
Sep 28, 2017 | A Day In My Life
I’m curled up in bed, spooked by the unfamiliar sounds of morning. The tent walls flap in the wind, tiny paws whisper on the snow, and campers snore in the tents near by. In the distant hills, a wolf howls. My fur rises on my back. It’s still far from sunrise, but the...
Sep 27, 2016 | A Day In My Life
In my life, no two days are alike. Especially not now, when I am actually between lives. For over ten years I have worked as an international aid worker in different parts of Asia and Africa. It suited my restless spirit, my love of adventure, and my compassion for...
