by Lauren Carter | Mar 1, 2018 | Contemplations, Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Internet, Issues, Process, Writing Life
The ground is under my feet. Snow turning soft, ridged snowmobile trails collapsing into black earth in the fields where we run our dog. In the early morning, the blue jays show up to eat the sunflower seeds that the red squirrel has knocked out of the feeder....
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 21, 2017 | Contemplations, Creativity, Internet, Issues, Process, Reading, Writers, Writing Life
Yesterday morning, I drank my coffee in the South Pacific. On the island of Tahiti, to be exact. During a game of haru raa puu which led to a dramatic and moving conclusion for Miss Alma Whittaker, who nearly drowned, but fought the ocean’s grasp before arriving...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 20, 2017 | Food, Health, Issues, News, Recommended, Research
I’m in the midst of a physical and mental transformation. Don’t worry: I’m not getting plastic surgery or starting a religion. Instead, I’m figuring out how to eat in order to shrink. You see, over the past couple of years I’ve gotten a...
by PDR-Kellie | Feb 2, 2017 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Issues, Knitting, Process, Recommended, United States, World, Writers, Writing Life
Well, now. How’s everybody doing? A little bit of this? A touch of this? Yeah; I hear you. I’m not sure what to say. I could reiterate my own outrage; I could talk about fascism; I could point you to this excellent (and, yes, frightening) article by David...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 23, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, Internet, Issues, Process, Writing Life
It took about two minutes of talking to a few writer friends at the Canadian Writers’ Summit last weekend before I began realizing what might be wrong with my novel. I felt like a sponge, soaking up thoughts, ideas, writerly conversations while wandering between...
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...
