by PDR-Kellie | Apr 6, 2017 | Alberta, Animals, Mowat, Nature, Pets, Recommended, Saskatchewan, Travel, Writing Life
J. and I took our show on the road last week and went to Alberta. We drove through crazy weather – freezing rain interspersed with blizzard – before popping out into sunshine. At a hobby farm outside Edmonton, we hunkered down and did a whole lot of...
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 | Oct 29, 2015 | Contemplations, Knitting, Novel, Process, Saskatchewan, Travel, Writing Life
Last night I had a dream that I was holding the advance reading copy of my next novel. It had a gorgeous cover in reds and browns, and it was a big fat book. The only problem: part of it was in Italian. I don’t quite know it yet, is what I think this means. It...
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,...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 11, 2015 | First Nations, Manitoba, Novel, Process, Saskatchewan, TWUC, Writing Life
I’ve been back home for just over a week. So far, 2015 has been a bit of a whirlwind. You know this if you regularly read my blog, or follow me on Facebook, but I spent January and February at my mom’s place, helping ride the waves in the wake of my...
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...
