by PDR-Kellie | Oct 19, 2017 | Animals, Contemplations, Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Dreams, Manitoba, Process, Teaching, Writing Life
I woke up this morning feeling lucky. J. brought me coffee in the gorgeous bird-bedecked mug he gave me a couple years ago and told me, Happy birthday. Whatever I’d been dreaming had left me with a good feeling, I suppose, because that’s what I felt, I...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 30, 2017 | Alberta, Contemplations, Family, Poetry, Suicide, Writing Life
I woke at four this morning, and with night around me, the dark, quiet fields outside, I wrote for a little while. A couple of poems came out: one about the sleek black kitten who lives in the house we’re house-sitting on a hobby farm in Alberta, another to my...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 15, 2015 | Contemplations, Family, Manitoba, The Pas
As I write this, sitting at my office desk, my mother and sister are painting my kitchen. Free labour, we joked with the guy who came to deliver J.’s and my new fridge this morning but, in truth, they offered. I meant to get the kitchen painted, I told them over...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 25, 2014 | Contemplations, Reviews, Swarm, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been so busy, pushing forward into future work, and mentoring other writers, that I only remembered yesterday that my baby, my first novel, turned one this month! So, happy book birthday, Swarm! There was no party, and I haven’t posted photos on...
