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 30, 2016 | Contemplations, Family, History, outdoors, Summer, Travel, World, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been printing maps lately. Screen grabs of the UK’s ordinance survey to help chart our way around Struy, near Inverness, site of the Clan Chisholm’s burial ground. Originally, we’d planned to visit this area and then find our way to Loch Ness and start our hike...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 24, 2016 | Contemplations, Nature, outdoors, Process, Travel, World, Writing Life
I’ve never been a sporty girl. In elementary school, I got out of gym for what seemed like months for reasons I no longer remember. There I’d be, sitting on the stage like a wuss, probably reading a book. I was the one who got picked last in team selection...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 17, 2015 | Books, Contemplations, Giveaways, Guest Posts, Nature, Novel, outdoors, Prizes, Process, Recommended, United States, Writers, Writing Life
In Calgary, this past spring, I had the real pleasure of reading Leo Brent Robillard’s fourth novel, The Road to Atlantis. The publisher had asked me to blurb it, which means to give it a tidbit of praise they can use on the cover, and I’m usually careful...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 30, 2007 | Recommended, United States, Writing Life
Last July, Jason and I spent some time hiking in hundred degree heat in southern Utah. It wasn’t just to get away. Nor was it an exercise in self-flagellation. Like Gary Ferguson, the writer of Outbound, a poignant and lovely essay I recently discovered in the...
