by PDR-Kellie | Jan 4, 2018 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, Manitoba, Novel, Ontario, Process, Seasons, Teaching, Writers, Writing Life
J. and I have been journeying. Right now we are crossing the top (actually more like the middle) of Ontario. Yesterday after some messy snow along the route into the north we turned west at Cochrane and drove from town to town, Kapuskasing to Hearst to Longlac. This...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 14, 2017 | Creativity, Family, News, Novel, Poetry, Process, Seasons, Suicide, Teaching, Tim, Winter, Writers, Writing Life
So, it’s been a bit of a rough week, and I’ve got nothing to complain about. Apart from being closed up in my countryside cloister due to a broken-down car, great things have been happening. I’ve pretty much filled my pilot course (one spot is left,...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 9, 2017 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, Manitoba, Nature, Novel, Poetry, Prizes, Process, Suicide, Tim, Travel, Winnipeg, Writers, Writing Life
Last spring, and earlier, in the previous winter and fall, I wrote some poems about my brother. One came in the night, in a tent, camped on the rocky shore of the arm of Simonhouse Lake that leads into Second Cranberry as J. and I were pushing into wilderness on a...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 5, 2017 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Family, Fiction, Manitoba, Novel, Process, Winnipeg, Writing Life
So, things have been nuts. My mom came to visit, two days after the movers hauled everything into our new house. We picked her up at the airport and – you might already know this – when she got inside our front door and started climbing the stairs, she...
by PDR-Kellie | Jul 20, 2017 | Family, Manitoba, Nature, News, outdoors, Process, Seasons, Winnipeg, Writing Life
Last week, J. and I went south to shop for a new house. After a long day of driving, we backed our tent trailer into what could have been the worst car camping site we’ve ever occupied: zero shade, edging the trail to the beach, and monitored by two bored...
by PDR-Kellie | Jul 6, 2017 | Family, Manitoba, Mowat, News, Summer, The Pas, Writing Life
I just remembered it’s Thursday, my blog day. Sitting in our empty house, in the dining room where Griffy peed all over the floor when it was just plywood and studs and we’d gone away for a few weeks (our poor cat-sitters…). Mowat’s beside me,...
