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 | Aug 4, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, History, International, Nature, Scotland, Summer, Travel, World, Writing Life
In Glen Affric, at the end of our third day on the trail, we stopped to camp beside the Allt Coire Ghaidhe waterfall. Since that morning, when we’d woken up in a lovely campsite overlooking Loch Beinn a’Mheadhoin (which translates to loch of hill of the...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 30, 2016 | Contemplations, Family, History, outdoors, Summer, Travel, World, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been printing maps lately. Screen grabs of the UK’s ordinance survey to help chart our way around Struy, near Inverness, site of the Clan Chisholm’s burial ground. Originally, we’d planned to visit this area and then find our way to Loch Ness and start our hike...
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 | 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 | Apr 2, 2015 | Alberta, Firelight Interview Series, History, Ontario, Poetry, Saskatchewan, Writers, Writing Life
Laurie D. Graham is a reader, a writer, and a deep thinker who always gave appreciated and thoughtful commentary on the work on the table during our shared fiction and poetry workshops in the University of Guelph’s MFA program. A transplanted westerner, she now...
