by Sharon Cooke | Apr 29, 2013
Mommy, can you take that picture down, she scares me”. “But sweetie, that lady in the picture is me – it’s Mommy. What’s so scary?’ “She looks so sad.” “Sharon, when I asked you to send me some photo’s – well, these are nice, but…” “But what Dad?” “Well, you look so...
by Sharon Cooke | Feb 12, 2013
As I leave the Zonta Film Festival, I am empty. Not because I hadn’t been impacted by the three films I’d just viewed. I was empty, because life was asking me to let go. The Zonta Film Festival features films made by women about women, but not solely for women – these...
by Sharon Cooke | Jan 29, 2013
Celebrities choose an incredibly courageous reality. They choose to live an exaggerated version of life that never fails to get our attention. We notice them, we look for them, we search them out. Google, Tweeting, Facebook, Entertainment shows, Magazines, Books,...
by Sharon Cooke | Dec 23, 2012
Christmas; a time of giving. In 1981 I was given a gift. I’d like to share it. Now Go Find Your Greenhouse “Sharon needs to meet my mother”… Her name was Wynne. I didn’t know what to expect from this woman called Wynne, what type of person she was, what she’d look...
by Sharon Cooke | Dec 1, 2012
Recently Fred and I travelled a smidgen of the world. We went from Canada to Japan to Hawaii and back home. While in Japan there was a typhoon in the Philippines and South Korea. Out shopping and seeing the sights, the winds came up and the rains pelted down. A few...