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Alberta Adventure

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...

Thoughts on La Loche

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...

Learning the Language

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...

Where There’s Smoke

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,...

Homecoming

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...

Firelight Interview Series: Laurie D. Graham

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...
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