by PDR-Kellie | Jul 6, 2017 | Family, Manitoba, Mowat, News, Summer, The Pas, Writing Life
I just remembered it’s Thursday, my blog day. Sitting in our empty house, in the dining room where Griffy peed all over the floor when it was just plywood and studs and we’d gone away for a few weeks (our poor cat-sitters…). Mowat’s beside me,...
by PDR-Kellie | May 4, 2017 | Creativity, Family, Manitoba, Mowat, Nature, News, outdoors, Poetry, Process, Seasons, The Pas, Writing Life
So, spring. Change in the air. Our backyard a sudden chaos of birdsong: the chattering boat-tailed grackles, the red-winged blackbirds shrieking as they puff out their red patches, the sweet chirping of the robins. Yesterday, I took Mowat for a run on a dyke further...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 3, 2016 | Contemplations, Dreams, Mowat, Novel, Process, Seasons, Swarm, Writing Life
I admit it: I’m procrastinating. That is what you’d call spending half an hour planning a wedding vow renewal ceremony in Vegas after a deal popped up in my email, right? Instead of addressing Chapter Thirteen, I’ve picked the hotel (the Mirage,...
by PDR-Kellie | Aug 27, 2015 | Animals, Family, Mowat, Pets, Poetry, Writing Life
I’ve been thinking about Oliver lately. I think this is because I’ve been digging through my files, cleaning up and clearing out, and stumbling across photographs (which, as advised in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I then put into a box to be sorted through...
by PDR-Kellie | Feb 19, 2015 | Animals, Family, Mowat, Pets, The Pas
Last week, J. tells me, he and Mowat were out on the trail behind our house with a few other dogs and dog owners. They were having a great time – the dogs, that is, the owners would have been hunched inside their down jackets, stamping their feet on the ground...
