by PDR-Kellie | Oct 26, 2017 | Animals, Contemplations, Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Just For Fun, Manitoba, Process, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
Last night, I got on a horse. A beautiful white mare named Rosie with grey speckles scattered across her coat. Step by step, I got her ready: laid the blanket on her wide back, set the saddle, cinched it (over and over because some horses, like Rosie, appreciate the...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 24, 2014 | Canada Reads, Just For Fun, Mixed Tape, Music, Swarm, Writing Life
Despite the fact that my mother studied to be an opera singer in the 1960s, I’m not a very musical person. I mean, I make up silly songs about everything, especially our growing collection of animals, but I don’t listen to a lot of music. I write in...
by PDR-Kellie | Jan 19, 2008 | Contemplations, Just For Fun, World
Last May, in downtown Santiago de Chile, I found myself laughing my head off in a brightly-lit diner. It was around midnight and a few of us, gripped by hunger, had sauntered up the street from our hostel to find something to eat. Little did we know the menu would...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 6, 2007 | Going Green, Just For Fun, United States
A couple of odd bits of news from Miami, Florida popped into my in-box today, sent by TravelMole. Together, they summoned an image of that strange ocean-side world, so different from the wintry view out my window. How fun! The first is a newly offered guarantee from...
by PDR-Kellie | May 15, 2007 | Just For Fun
finally updating her blog! Lauren is excited. Lauren is giving her dog a cookie. Lauren is out in the garden, going to bed, packing, off on an adventure, back to work. Lauren is procrastinating. For many of you the above claims might make no sense at all. But if...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 18, 2007 | Just For Fun
One of my first major publications was a piece for the Globe and Mail’s Facts and Arguments section. It was an essay about diving dumpsters – specifically the one behind the supermarket near my house. We were finding food, all kinds of it: loaf after loaf...
