The Word Guild 2026 Awards
Manuscript shortlisted for The 2026 Word Awards: God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places by Carolin M. Paradis. Continue Reading →
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Page Turner Awards Update
Hello Dear Readers, Last year, I was chosen as a 2025 Page Turner Awards Finalist for my manuscript God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places. This year, I am thrilled Continue Reading →
Page Turner Awards 2026 Update: Simply Betty
Dear Readers, What a surprise! I stumbled upon a rare writer’s award contest for unpublished, incomplete manuscripts. The surprise, however, was not the award category but the judges feedback on Continue Reading →
Dead End Disappointment
It was 6:00 o’clock Saturday evening. With headphones secured on my head, and my computer fired up and tuned into You Tube, I was ready. My daughter bustled making dinner Continue Reading →
Desert Destination
Making my way along a carpeted hallway, I admired the bucolic prints of warm-hearted country scenes adorning the walls between suites. Moving at a brisk pace so as not to Continue Reading →
Desert Guilt
The burden of my choice weighed heavily. An impulse decision to help an aged friend had landed me in a desert landscape riddled with desert guilt. My insides gnawed. I Continue Reading →
Desert Drive
Before leaving Montreal for a desert drive to Toronto, we stopped by a Jean Coutu to fill Pam’s rehab hospital prescription (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/17/desert-luck/). The diversion to a pharmacy was Continue Reading →
Desert Luck
“Okay, I got lucky. Humber Heights has a room. At least we have one good thing happening in this pandemic.” It was desert luck (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/10/desert-decision/). My cousin Sue, Continue Reading →
Desert Decision
Finally, a breakthrough. A desert decision. Decades as a head nurse deferring to doctors’ directives is likely what distilled Pam’s stubborn independence (refer to backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/03/desert-dementia/). Dorothée made headway with Continue Reading →
Desert Dementia
In a desert, lost people deprived of shelter and water hallucinate. Minds deteriorate and perceptions dim to desert dementia. The Pandemic did that to older people. Social and physical loss Continue Reading →