Sarah O'Connor

Mind Play 2019

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June 3, 2019

As you may remember I was accepted into the HamilTEN Festival earlier this year for the play I wrote, Beep, a short and personal play about my mom’s death and how people who have never dealt with death react around people who have. It’s a very important play to me for obvious reasons and getting to put it on in April was such an amazing and unforgettable experience that wasn’t as scary as I originally thought it would be. It was time for me to write about my mom, about grief, and to show people how I had been feeling and I’m happy I had the perfect medium to do it. Continue reading

2 Thirds Podcast Episode 1 – Two Truths and a Lie

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May 29, 2019

Episode 1 is here folks! We wanted to introduce you to us with a fun game of Two Truths and a Lie, who do you think will win? Continue reading

Reappearing

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May 27, 2019

I’ve mentioned a number of times on here that I sometimes feel invisible. Sometimes I feel like it’s something I’m doing to myself, sometimes it just seems to be who I am as a person. I fade away in certain situations, I get forgotten. It happens, but I’ve been trying to make sure I don’t intentionally disappear or make myself invisible, but to make myself visible to other people can be hard. How do you make it so people can see you when you can’t even see yourself sometimes? Continue reading

The Kindness of Strangers

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May 20, 2019

Sometimes it’s hard to feel good about yourself, particularly appearance-wise. I’ve always had trouble with my appearance, though it’s definitely gotten better from when I was young and was constantly scrutinizing every flaw only I could see in the mirror. Continue reading

A Small Change (Also A Podcast!)

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May 17, 2019

So here comes a small change that maybe doesn’t warrant a blog post, but here it is.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking with this blog, and all my other blogs. I try to post on each of them regularly but it just doesn’t happen and I know it sounds stupid, but running a blog takes a lot of work and running three can be pretty overwhelming at times. More often than not I end up putting more care into one and ignoring the others. And typically it’s this blog that gets the most attention because I used it as a portfolio and a way to get myself writing every week, but I still like my other blogs. I like writing book reviews and talking about books and I like talking about scripts and the projects going on with Stuck in a Story Productions. Continue reading

Circle Back

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May 13, 2019

My dad likes to listen to A.M. radio, one station in particular that plays all the old songs from the 60s and 70s that rarely come on anymore. On the weekends they’ll play a half hour of Leonard Cohen, followed by a half hour of Tony Bennett, and ending with a half hour of The Beatles, but that’s during the day and a bit into the evening. Continue reading

Worn Out

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May 6, 2019

(Written late on my phone, will fix all spelling and grammar errors later!)

I’ve been feeling worn out and unmotivated for a while now. Part of this is because I had a bad cold that for some reason knocked all the energy out of me a week ago (which rarely happens when I get sick). But I rested and now the cold is basically gone but I still can’t get myself motivated to do some of the things I love doing. I still haven’t finished a book I started in March and I haven’t written as often as I used to and there really is no reason for it. Continue reading

Rest

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May 3, 2019

I bet you all thought I wasn’t going to write a blog post this week, part of me thought I might not either. But I’m kind of forcing myself to right now, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but is taking a lot of effort all the same. Continue reading

Take Back The Trails

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April 22, 2019

Content Warning: Brief mention of sexual assault.

On Friday a woman in my city organized a hike on a nearby trail as a type of protest. The week before another woman had been hiking the trail when she heard a man call to her. The woman was then struck by the man and sexually assaulted on the trail. So far the man has not been caught. Continue reading

Celebrating Canadian Authors

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April 15, 2019

This past weekend I volunteered at the Grit Lit Festival, a local literary festival that celebrates Canadian authors. I’d gone for fun for a few years and absolutely loved listening to authors discuss and speak about their works and other issues, and obviously finding (and buying) new books to read. So after getting some emails earlier in the year calling for volunteers I finally decided to join in! After all I love books, want to be an author someday (maybe even be an author at Grit Lit one day, fingers crossed!), and want to pursue a career in publishing so it only made sense that if I was going to go to the festival for fun anyways I might as well volunteer at it. Continue reading