by PDR-Kellie | Jan 4, 2018 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, Manitoba, Novel, Ontario, Process, Seasons, Teaching, Writers, Writing Life
J. and I have been journeying. Right now we are crossing the top (actually more like the middle) of Ontario. Yesterday after some messy snow along the route into the north we turned west at Cochrane and drove from town to town, Kapuskasing to Hearst to Longlac. This...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 6, 2017 | Alberta, Animals, Mowat, Nature, Pets, Recommended, Saskatchewan, Travel, Writing Life
J. and I took our show on the road last week and went to Alberta. We drove through crazy weather – freezing rain interspersed with blizzard – before popping out into sunshine. At a hobby farm outside Edmonton, we hunkered down and did a whole lot of...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 8, 2016 | Animals, Family, Manitoba, Nature, Recommended, Seasons, Travel, Winter, Writing Life
It’s been a week since my mom went home. I ended up driving her to Flin Flon – along with another woman stuck in The Pas because the plane couldn’t land on last Thursday’s icy tarmac – in order to catch her flight to Winnipeg, then on to...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 8, 2016 | Manitoba, Nature, News, outdoors, Publications, The Pas, Travel
This August, J. and I returned home from our canoe trip to hear the bad news about The Pas. At the library, where I work part-time, the staff – two of whom have husbands who work at the mill – were reeling. In such a small town, when the main employer...
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...
