by PDR-Kellie | Apr 5, 2018 | Creativity, Internet, Knitting, Manitoba, Mowat, Nature, Writing Life
Despite the Arctic airmass that’s been hanging over us, plunging temperatures into the minus double digits, spring is coming. The snow is ever-so-slowly receding towards the forest shadows, the geese are returning, and the other day I saw a seagull soar over our...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 15, 2018 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Internet, Process, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been returning to the roots of writing practice lately. To the book I bought and cracked open as I was crossing the Georgia Strait between Tsawwassen and Vancouver Island on my way to Salt Spring Island, circa 1993. Back then, as I read the first pages of...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 21, 2017 | Contemplations, Creativity, Internet, Issues, Process, Reading, Writers, Writing Life
Yesterday morning, I drank my coffee in the South Pacific. On the island of Tahiti, to be exact. During a game of haru raa puu which led to a dramatic and moving conclusion for Miss Alma Whittaker, who nearly drowned, but fought the ocean’s grasp before arriving...
by PDR-Kellie | Aug 25, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Manitoba, Nature, outdoors, Process, Summer, Writing Life
Last week, in the woods, I became reacquainted with my brain. I remembered who I am. The paddling was tough. Every time we hit a lake, the wind bore down like a creature, pushing two-foot waves at us, and we had long distances to cover. There were whole days of...
by PDR-Kellie | Aug 18, 2016 | Books, Contemplations, Creativity, Knitting, Mowat, Nature, outdoors, Reading, Summer, Travel, Writing Life
By the time you read this, I’ll be in the woods. Off the Internet, paddling the Grass River as my Blackberry battery slowly dies. Three books (a novel, a poetry collection, and a book of essays), my own ongoing poetry project and my latest knitting project (a...
