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Alberta Adventure

by PDR-Kellie | Apr 6, 2017 | Alberta, Animals, Mowat, Nature, Pets, Recommended, Saskatchewan, Travel, Writing Life

J. and I took our show on the road last week and went to Alberta. We drove through crazy weather – freezing rain interspersed with blizzard – before popping out into sunshine. At a hobby farm outside Edmonton, we hunkered down and did a whole lot of...

Happy Birthday, Bro

by PDR-Kellie | Mar 30, 2017 | Alberta, Contemplations, Family, Poetry, Suicide, Writing Life

I woke at four this morning, and with night around me, the dark, quiet fields outside, I wrote for a little while. A couple of poems came out: one about the sleek black kitten who lives in the house we’re house-sitting on a hobby farm in Alberta, another to my...

Mixed Tape: Rea Tarvydas’s How To Pick Up A Maid In Statue Square

by PDR-Kellie | Sep 29, 2016 | Alberta, Books, Fiction, Guest Posts, Mixed Tape, Music, Process, Reading, Recommended, Writers, Writing Life

This week, writer Rea Tarvydas shares the songs that power her brand new short story collection. Read and give a listen!  Music is a big deal for me as a writer. I use it in different ways. Sometimes it’s to condition me into a piece of writing and, in that instance,...

Life and Art

by PDR-Kellie | Sep 22, 2016 | Alberta, Art, Books, CanLit Collections, Family, Fiction, Guest Posts, Knitting, Ontario, Process, Recommended, Toronto, Travel, TWUC, Writers, Writing Life

Remember last week? When I talked about irons in the fire? Well, I’ve been busy, busy stirring the flames this past week, so much so that my planned post isn’t actually ready to go up. That’s the bad news. The good news is that said post is by my...

Happy Knitiversary

by PDR-Kellie | May 12, 2016 | Alberta, Contemplations, Creativity, Knitting, Writing Life

I passed my one-year knitiversary rather quietly. Facebook spat up a reminder, showing me the blog post that I wrote about beginning to learn, after I started taking classes in Calgary last spring while living there on a residency. It was very strange to click back...

Firelight Interview Series: Micheline Maylor

by PDR-Kellie | Nov 5, 2015 | Alberta, Books, Firelight Interview Series, Poetry, Writers, Writing Life

I met Calgary poet Micheline Maylor in a monastery overlooking the Qu’Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan. Sage Hill, of course. Every morning, early, I’d wander out to the lounge to get a cup of coffee and she’d be there, awake and writing. Then, when I...
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