Deborah Kimmett
Wit..Wisdom..Wonderful!!
"She made 100 psychiatrists laugh."
Christina Raposa, Mental Health,
Scarborough Hospital
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID NEVER A BRIDE
July 22, 2010
ALWAYS A BRIDE NEVER A BRIDESMAID
What do you call twenty-eight women sitting in the living room spreading melted Brie over rice crackers, pounding back the cocktails and yapping like crows sitting on a fence? If you said Tuesday night book club night you’d be close. In fact this was a bridal shower, for my cousin Francine’s daughter, Helen.
It’s been a custom for decades now to shower new brides- to-be with things that will help them set up a household but brides today have either lived on their own and collected their trousseau or
Categories: News... | Chapter 1: THE BIG PICTURE The summer of 1968 is where my mind plops down and lights up a smoke. I am ten years old. It’s hotter than Hades and we are all standing in the woodshed, attached to the summer kitchen, my siblings and my mother, still as soldiers, barely able to catch our breath. It smells like mouse shit and dried wood.
Categories: News... | These are my favourite two days of the summer. I get a handful of writers at my island studio and we learn how to write great dialogue, great plot, great stories. Whether you are a new writer or an experienced on do not miss this great opportunity to write and spend time on beautiufl AMHERST ISLAND. FREE CONSULTATION ABOUT YOUR WRITING INCLUDED IN THIS TWO DAY EVENT. AUgst 7th, 8th, WRITERS WORKSHOP. CHECK IT OUT UNDER BUY STUFF.
Categories: News... | This year my kids came back for a stopover. Some friends said I was asking for trouble by weakening my perimeters, but I was thinking of my retirement. When I get old, they’ll have to reciprocate and let me come stay with them. You may think it’s emotional blackmail; I think it’s financial planning. With the current economy, I’m on the Freedom 55 plan: I will retire when my kids are 55. I wasn’t an empty nester without borders. I had stringent guidelines. They couldn’t go to the bathroom in the middle of doing the dishes — I
Categories: News... | I am fortunate. I have written my own material for 30 years but to write for no other reason than because I love it has been gift. My writing is always creative and mostly humorous but the biggest gift it has opened me up to worlds inside of myself. And the act of writing is everything I am not. It’s spacious and generous. With pen moving across the page I see what I really think. It strips away the press release I issue to the world. The sell job I have done on myself, and to the people around me.
Categories: News... | THE RELEVANT DEBORAH KIMMETT COMING TO KINGSTON MAY 15th 2010 7:30 pm. (CLICK UNDER BUY STUFF) Ministering to those looking for a good laugh, the new show at The Relevant Deborah Kimmett is at the Crossroads United Church in Kingston A church you say? Has Kimmett gone religious? Well choirs do it. Why not comics? “The location suits my humour, and the acoustics are super for my opening act, singer Kim Pollard who has a great rocking voice. ”We have a hot show great new characters like my character Reverend Dee who is so inclusive her greeting takes longer than the
Categories: News... | I wanted the driving lesson to turn out differently. Perhaps me clutching the dashboard, saying the rosary didn’t instill confidence. In my day, it was different. We wrote a test, got our license in the afternoon, drove on the big highway that night. Today they
Categories: News... | A DIAMOND IN THE BUFF For years I’ve gone from pillar to post trying to improve myself. I was in a starter home. A fixer upper. I was under construction so much I needed a building permit. Always in search of the next book, the next DVD, class or teacher because I thought it took a village to raise a neurotic. I did everything. I envisioned prosperity, got my colours done. I found out what colour my parachute was. I pushed the envelope; I thought “outside the box”, explored the power of positive thinking until
Categories: News... | C OMEDIANDeborah Kimmett admits that it isn’t easy per- forming in front of a home- town crowd. “I actually get more stressed (than doing a show elsewhere) because everybody knows you,” Kimmett says with a laugh. Nevertheless, the comic with local roots is once again bringing her funny act to the Napanee stage at the Lion’s Hall on Feb. 4. One year ago, Kimmett was performing at the same venue to raise money for her educational video, ‘Talking to Sick People’. The video is a light-hearted examination of a serious subject,and will be used to help caregivers develop better communication techniques when speaking with people who are sick. She said she got the idea to develop the video after taking a palliative care course through Lennox and Addington Hospice. She worked with Hospice Executive Direc- tor Peggy Sunstrum
Categories: News... | Crazy circles the Airport but we’re the one who clears it for Landing. To paraphrase Shakespeare “Work is but a stage and we are merely players.” In my case this is not just a metaphor. I am in the theatre business so this story involves an actress called Elizabeth Ashby. Many years ago she won the lead role in the Broadway play, Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. She played the love-starved Maggie who moved through life like a hungry cat. To prepare herself for the role Ashby went to the streets of New York City
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Outrunning Crazy - Novel
July 15, 2010
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“Don’t make a sound,” she threatened us, “or I’ll crucify you.” My
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WRITE AT ISLAND DOT CALM
July 13, 2010
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BOOMERANG BACK BABY
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WHY I LOVE TO WRITE
June 7, 2010
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THE RELEVANT DEBORAH KIMMETT
April 6, 2010
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SURVIVING MS CRAZY
March 2, 2010
As my kid was slamming the car door yelling. “ Mom I hate you”, I realized teaching your kids to drive is a lot like natural childbirth. All that breathing sounds like a good idea until the first contraction, its damn the torpedoes and every man for himself.
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Diamond In The Buff
February 15, 2010
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The Relevant Deborah Kimmett
February 2, 2010
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Some Days Crazy Circles The Airport!
January 26, 2010
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