Award Winning Author Heather Menzies launches her latest book, Enter Mourning: a memoir on death, dementia and coming home. Now available from from Key Porter Books.

Upcoming events:

October 14th @ 7 p.m., Carlingwood Library, 281 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa. Join us for an author reading and book signing. Call (613) 725-2449 ext. 24 to ensure a seat. Click here for more information.

November 30 in Hamiton @ noon. McMaster University, Centre for Gerontological Studies: Presentation to faculty & students. Evening: Reading and talk from Enter Mourning to Alzheimer Society event on theme of "Re-Connecting and Re-learning: How to communicate with persons with dementia."

Enter Mourning: a memoir on death, dementia and coming home is available for purchase at your favourite local independent book store or online at these retailers: McNally Robinson (click here to visit) Chapters Indigo (click here to visit) Amazon (click here to visit)
	“Mum opened her eyes and looked at me in the searching way I’d grown used to. By then I had come to believe that as words had lost their meaning, she relied more and more on body language, the steadiness of my gaze and the cadences of my voice, the basic alphabet of love. She heard at a level that I was unaware of, trust making up, perhaps, for cognition.”

Excerpt from the book's Introduction:

At some point, taking care of my aging mother stopped being an imposition, or even a series of tasks I managed with some semblance of grace, and became an experience that changed my life. It opened me not just to the unknown but to unknowing as a way of living, simultaneously letting go and letting in. I learned to give myself over to the crumbling and ebbing away of life and in doing this, discovered how it flows from the tangible, the articulate and the comprehensible to the intangible and the inscrutable. In the end, it’s almost entirely an act of faith, or so it seemed to be to me. …

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HEATHER MENZIES RECEIVES HONOURARY DOCTORATE FROM CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IN MONTREAL

Click here to read the citation from Concordia University.

Click here to read Heather's speaking notes in accepting the degree.

MENZIES WINS BOOK AWARD FOR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NO TIME

Heather Menzies, a writer, academic and social activist, has won the non-fiction category in the annual OttawaBook Award with a look at how our lives are swamped by high-tech stress.

In an interview yesterday, Menzies said she was gratified with all the positive attention lavished on the book and noted that working on the project taught her lessons about slowing down.

"Yesterday I played hookey and went for a canoe ride"- from Ottawa Citizen article by Paul Gessell, 05/26/06

"A Globe and Mail top 100" book for 2005

Winner of the Ottawa Book Award (non-fiction) in 2006

Hear an inteview with Heather about NO TIME