by Lauren Carter | Aug 30, 2019 | Events, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing Life
Well, it’s nearly fall. Up here, outside of Winnipeg, the leaves are already transitioning to their autumn tones of amber and red, and the showy mountain ash tree we planted in the spring is full of birds building up their stores for the long flight south. In...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 26, 2018 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, File Under Weird, Knitting, Manitoba, Nature, Poetry, Process, Seasons, Writing Life
Day after day of dazzling sunshine has lately lifted my spirits. It helps too that I sent off my poetry manuscript to the publisher this week and that the birds are back. Purple finches and dark-eyed juncos at our backyard feeder. White pelicans crowding the Red...
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 | Oct 26, 2017 | Animals, Contemplations, Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Just For Fun, Manitoba, Process, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
Last night, I got on a horse. A beautiful white mare named Rosie with grey speckles scattered across her coat. Step by step, I got her ready: laid the blanket on her wide back, set the saddle, cinched it (over and over because some horses, like Rosie, appreciate the...
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...
