by PDR-Kellie | Sep 27, 2018 | Creativity, Events, File Under Weird, Manitoba, Process, Readings, Winnipeg, Writers, Writing Life
Last Friday night seems so long ago. Since then, I’ve been catching what I can of the events at our city’s extraordinary writers’ festival and also trying to negotiate the rising, rollicking tides of anger I feel at what’s happening in the U.S....
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 13, 2018 | Events, Fiction, Manitoba, Readings, Winnipeg, Writers, Writing Life
The leaves are changing. Our yard is covered with curled, yellow maple leaves and fallen crab apples left for the blue jays and squirrels. The garden looks shabby, the muted purples and golds of narrow leaf sunflowers and purple asters punctuated by the crimson red...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 30, 2013 | Books, Manitoba, Ontario, Orillia, Swarm, Writing Life
THIN AIR was absolutely fantastic! Such an amazing opportunity to meet readers and writers and literature lovers, including a group of keen creative kids at Vincent Massey Collegiate. The questions they asked after my reading there were better than some posed by...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 25, 2013 | Manitoba, Nature, The Pas, Writing Life
At dawn, J. drove me north to The Pas airport where I climbed on board a commuter plane that rose up over Clearwater Lake, headed for Flin Flon. Stared into the sun rising over the network of water and land that is northern Manitoba. Switched sides after the plane...
