by PDR-Kellie | Aug 11, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, First Nations, History, Manitoba, Nature, Otherworldly, outdoors, Scotland, Summer, Travel, Writing Life
Life has been busy since we got home from Scotland. We’re finishing renovations that won’t get done during the school year (we, as in J. and some hired help), I’m working a lot at the library and we’re squeezing in trips on the weekends. This...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 16, 2016 | British Columbia, Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, First Nations, Guest Posts, History, Issues, New, Process, Recommended, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been on a reading blitz lately about residential schools. I’ve read a couple novels that address this atrocious time in Canadian history, and I’m deep into volume one of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, a...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 17, 2016 | Contemplations, First Nations, Issues, Manitoba, News, People, The Pas
“We need a … youth complex, a youth centre, somewhere for the kids to go and hangout and have some fun,” the hockey coach in Pimicikamak Cree Nation (Cross Lake) told CBC last week. “There are no arts, music, dance or self-defence programs,...
by PDR-Kellie | Jan 28, 2016 | Contemplations, First Nations, History, News, Saskatchewan
On Sunday evening, in the pitch black, we were driving home along the dirt road that’s a short-cut between The Pas and Hudson Bay (the town in Saskatchewan). Unreserved, the CBC radio show, played through our satellite system, and into the deep darkness came...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 24, 2015 | First Nations, Manitoba, News, The Pas, Workshops, Writer-in-Residence, Writers
I am so excited to announce that Halifax-based writer Lorri Neilsen Glenn will be coming north to The Pas next spring (May 3-June 15) to be our second Writer-in-Residence at The Pas Regional Library, thanks to funding from the Manitoba Arts Council! With roots in...
by PDR-Kellie | Jul 9, 2015 | Alberta, British Columbia, Family, First Nations, Manitoba, News, Saskatchewan, The Pas
My husband is reading The Road. You know, the post-apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy novel where the world is blanketed in ash and everything is burnt or burning. It’s a fitting setting for the situation in Western Canada this summer. To the south of us,...
