by PDR-Kellie | May 24, 2018 | Creativity, Nature, Publications, Swarm, World, Writing Life
It’s been hot here in Manitoba. Forest fires are already raging north of us and the birds regularly stop by to take sips out of our birdbath. Meanwhile, down in the U.S., the government recently decided to do away with all the regulations that were put in place...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 26, 2018 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, File Under Weird, Knitting, Manitoba, Nature, Poetry, Process, Seasons, Writing Life
Day after day of dazzling sunshine has lately lifted my spirits. It helps too that I sent off my poetry manuscript to the publisher this week and that the birds are back. Purple finches and dark-eyed juncos at our backyard feeder. White pelicans crowding the Red...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 5, 2018 | Creativity, Internet, Knitting, Manitoba, Mowat, Nature, Writing Life
Despite the Arctic airmass that’s been hanging over us, plunging temperatures into the minus double digits, spring is coming. The snow is ever-so-slowly receding towards the forest shadows, the geese are returning, and the other day I saw a seagull soar over our...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 15, 2018 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Internet, Process, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been returning to the roots of writing practice lately. To the book I bought and cracked open as I was crossing the Georgia Strait between Tsawwassen and Vancouver Island on my way to Salt Spring Island, circa 1993. Back then, as I read the first pages of...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 8, 2018 | Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Internet, Process, Teaching, Winter, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
I’m stuck on Chapter Four. Partly because I’ve spent the past five days working to eradicate some of the beige that covers every wall (well, except for bathroom’s combo of ’80s aqua and stark white and the kitchen’s half-and-half neon...
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