by Lauren Carter | Nov 29, 2018 | Animals, Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Mowat, Pets, Process, Writing Life
It’s been a wacky couple of weeks. J. and I both sick with the cold from h, e, double hockey sticks. A lump on Mowat’s back that the vet determined to be a tumour that had to be cut out and sent for further testing (still waiting for results). Then, because he’s Mowat...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 26, 2017 | Animals, Contemplations, Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Just For Fun, Manitoba, Process, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
Last night, I got on a horse. A beautiful white mare named Rosie with grey speckles scattered across her coat. Step by step, I got her ready: laid the blanket on her wide back, set the saddle, cinched it (over and over because some horses, like Rosie, appreciate the...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 19, 2017 | Animals, Contemplations, Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Dreams, Manitoba, Process, Teaching, Writing Life
I woke up this morning feeling lucky. J. brought me coffee in the gorgeous bird-bedecked mug he gave me a couple years ago and told me, Happy birthday. Whatever I’d been dreaming had left me with a good feeling, I suppose, because that’s what I felt, I...
by PDR-Kellie | Aug 3, 2017 | Animals, Art, Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Mowat, Novel, Pets, Process, Summer, Writing Life
I’m on day seventeen of the Summer of 2017 Finish My Novel marathon and our next door neighbour decided yesterday that he or she needed to start their own marathon. Of jackhammering. This put an end to my quiet working time on the back deck. It even almost triggered...
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...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 8, 2016 | Animals, Family, Manitoba, Nature, Recommended, Seasons, Travel, Winter, Writing Life
It’s been a week since my mom went home. I ended up driving her to Flin Flon – along with another woman stuck in The Pas because the plane couldn’t land on last Thursday’s icy tarmac – in order to catch her flight to Winnipeg, then on to...
