Beverly Akerman MSc
- Location
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Birthday
- April 26
- Bio
- Beverly Akerman's short story collection, The Meaning of Children was released in Canada in 2011 (look for it at Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and http://tinyurl.com/6zd2ecp). After over two decades in molecular genetics research, Beverly realized she'd been learning more and more about less and less. Skittish at the prospect of knowing everything about nothing, she turned, for solace, to writing, winning myriad awards for her efforts. She recently received her third Pushcart nomination. Her nonfiction and academic work have appeared in Maclean’s Magazine, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Montreal Gazette and on CBC Radio One (Canada’s NPR-equivalent), as well as in numerous lay publications and learned journals. It pleases her strangely to believe she’s the only Canadian fiction writer ever to have sequenced her own DNA. http://beverlyakermanmscwriter.blogspot.com/
MY RECENT POSTS
- How to be an e-book sensation.
Seriously!
April 30, 2012 01:17PM - Perfect for Mother's Day: The
Meaning Of Children, 99 cents
April 17, 2012 08:17PM - On Edward Shorter, feminism,
and '50 Shades of Grey'
March 31, 2012 12:45AM - Munro savvy, Picoult heart:
The Meaning Of Children FREE
March 23, 2012 10:34PM - No More "Dear Old McGill"
March 13, 2012 09:37PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks for reading,
Fusun. Do you think I've
publicized this
well enough?
;)”
April 30, 2012 01:53PM - “Thanks so much,
Trudge164 and Mary. Will let
you know how it
goes...it's
actually…”
March 07, 2012 03:37PM - “Kind of you to say,
Mary. If you make it up here,
please let
me know!”
February 22, 2012 08:58PM - “nice to read someone
with fire in his belly. good
luck:
you'll need it! (we all
d…”
January 18, 2012 09:52AM - “LOVED this! now i have
to go and read the
original
story...best for the
holidays…”
December 04, 2011 06:49PM
Beverly Akerman MSc's Links
Dayenu: In Loving Memory of Meir Ifergan z"l
Samedi le 5 décembre 2009
Nous avons le regret de vous faire part du décès de
Meir Ifergan.
Il laisse dans le deuil son épouse Jacqueline, ses enfants, Ariel (Karyne) et Shalva, sa petite-fille Elia, ses frères et soeurs, Jacques, Nonu, Armand,… Read full post »
Do no f*cking WOMEN work at Apple?!
Oh man, is Eve ever gonna be pissed!
Okay, we're supposed to believe that the whole freakin' WORLD's been waiting for Apple's latest tablet/computer/e-reader gizmo...like, yawn, as if...and then, when it finally arrives it's called the--wait for it girls--
iPad
Well WTF2!
Which begs the ques
… Read full post »Countering disinformation related to Canada's gun registry
To delegitimize Canada's long gun registry, a concerted disinformation campaign has been mounted by those ideologically opposed to it.
Myth 1: gun death is an urban, gang-related problem. The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians points out nearly 75 per cent of gun deaths are suicides. Here… Read full post »
International contests: Quebecers not wanted on the voyage
At first glance, internet behemoth Google, Esquire magazine, and Cisco Systems don’t have a lot in common – different lines of business, dissimilar in size, and varying widely in global reach. But it turns out the world’s largest search engine, the men’s magazine and the netwo… Read full post »
What part of “lethal weapon” do gun owners not understand?
To paraphrase one of my recent posts, “another day, another senseless gun death…” Or at least, another day, another story of moron-related gun mishap, this time of an eight-year-old boy who killed himself with a machine gun while at a Westfield, Massachusetts firearms exhibition. T… Read full post »
If the registry's so bad, why are police chiefs for it?
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Police Association, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Quebec Public Health Association, the cities of Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg all say the firearms registry works, and our police forces consult it over ten thousand time… Read full post »
PM Harper: Getting by with a little help from his friends...
[For more of my best writing, including news of my book, The Meaning Of Children, please visit my other blog!]
Another domestic tragedy unfolds in America, home of the brave and the clueless, where an estimated 45 million civilians own some 283 million guns.
On
… Read full post »Parliament, please don't pass Bill C-391!
The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.
P.J. O’Rourke, Holidays from Hell, 1989
Somewhere around 80 per cent of Canada's… Read full post »
"Have you ever seen a bus full of the English blow up?"
Moulin à paroles, this weekend’s Quebec City hot-air-a-thon marking the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, was organized following the cancellation of a re-enactment of France’s defeat, an event denounced by sovereignist groups as federalist… Read full post »
It's not just the economy, stupid!
(I've been writing favourably about gun control in Canada since my son was caught up in the mass shooting at Montreal's Dawson College in September 2006. Recently, some in the anti-gun-control lobby suggested I am the Gun Control Yenta. I think I like the sound of that...)
The interesting… Read full post »
Sarah Palin, Some Kinda Woman
I really have to hand it to Sarah Palin, John McCain's recently
selected
running mate. Most of the women I know who had just given birth to
a Down's Syndrome baby and discovered that their seventeen-year-old
daughter is pregnant wouldn't have time to even consider running
for… Read full post »
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