by PDR-Kellie | Dec 10, 2015 | Knitting, Mowat, Nature, Novel, outdoors, Pets, Pretty Pictures, Process, The Pas, Winter, Writing Life
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. And because I’m up to my eyeballs in chapter rewrites (still pushing to finish before the holidays, despite not meeting my deadline of this past Monday), knitting, TWUC stuff, and trying to...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 19, 2015 | Manitoba, Nature, Otherworldly, outdoors, Pretty Pictures, The Pas, Writing Life
I haven’t been sleeping well. My head full of stuff that needs doing as I prepare for Calgary, and too many true-crime mini-documentaries watched on Netflix. Torturing myself with stories of random violence, not without reason, for this is a theme I’m...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 23, 2014 | Contemplations, Nature, Pretty Pictures, Short Stories, Writing Life
The sky today is grey, toneless, a single hue of cement and shoreline stone. I’m sick, up in the night lurching to the bathroom to toss my cookies, and should be back in bed, ensconced with a good book, a fat pillow, and my electric heating pad. This sudden...
by PDR-Kellie | Jan 4, 2014 | Art, Manitoba, Nature, Pretty Pictures, Seasons, The Pas
It’s been one year plus two days since J. and I arrived in the cold winter of The Pas. To mark the occasion, we made a calendar of our photos to give away to a few people at Christmas. Thought I’d share the images, and details of where they were taken....
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 22, 2013 | Books, Pretty Pictures, Swarm, Writing Life
Lately I’ve been off my blog a bit. The solidity of the winter’s grip has made the days seem almost the same – blue sky, white snow – as if the deep-freeze is having an effect on time. But it’s not like things aren’t happening: J....
by PDR-Kellie | Feb 9, 2013 | Manitoba, Otherworldly, Pretty Pictures, Seasons, The Pas
Went out to Clearwater Lake this afternoon, a half-hour drive north. In the summer, people tell us, you can see through its 40-some feet of water to the very bottom. These days it’s solid and white. We met up with a few co-workers of J.’s and let our dogs...
