by PDR-Kellie | Sep 27, 2018 | Creativity, Events, File Under Weird, Manitoba, Process, Readings, Winnipeg, Writers, Writing Life
Last Friday night seems so long ago. Since then, I’ve been catching what I can of the events at our city’s extraordinary writers’ festival and also trying to negotiate the rising, rollicking tides of anger I feel at what’s happening in the U.S....
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 | Jun 29, 2017 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Family, File Under Weird, Knitting, Manitoba, Mowat, News, Novel, Pets, Teaching, The Pas, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
Well, here we go: after four and a half years in the beautiful north, we are saying ‘see you later’ to The Pas. Last weekend, in the midst of packing boxes and preparations for our yard sale, J. got a call and, to make a long story short, early this week...
by PDR-Kellie | Jul 23, 2015 | Family, File Under Weird, Nature, Ontario, outdoors, Travel
Just over a week ago, I had one of those mysterious, meaningful moments that seem hard to explain. It happened back home, in Ontario, the place my husband J. and I returned from on Tuesday after a fulfilling yet intense time away. We ranged far: from the Muskokas to...
