by PDR-Kellie | Aug 11, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, First Nations, History, Manitoba, Nature, Otherworldly, outdoors, Scotland, Summer, Travel, Writing Life
Life has been busy since we got home from Scotland. We’re finishing renovations that won’t get done during the school year (we, as in J. and some hired help), I’m working a lot at the library and we’re squeezing in trips on the weekends. This...
by PDR-Kellie | Aug 4, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, History, International, Nature, Scotland, Summer, Travel, World, Writing Life
In Glen Affric, at the end of our third day on the trail, we stopped to camp beside the Allt Coire Ghaidhe waterfall. Since that morning, when we’d woken up in a lovely campsite overlooking Loch Beinn a’Mheadhoin (which translates to loch of hill of the...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 2, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Novel, Process, Scotland, Teaching, Travel, Writing Life
I can tell when the writers I’m coaching are starting to catch fire. It’s when they write to me, bubbling over with the work they’re doing, whether that’s revising or writing hundreds of words a day when before they were sluggish, not wanting to start. There’s an...
