IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Re-entry
Tomorrow (barring any more delays involving trailer lights that prevent us from driving in the dark) we will be home. Tonight I'm still fighting for computer time in a hotel room with my computer-deprived family.For a little preview of part of our vacation, you can...
Still wandering… home soon
It has been amazing. We're on our way home.(Photo taken by budding photographer - and my early morning wandering companion - Julie.)
On the road
Not exactly breaking the bank
I got a cheque in the mail for $50. For a poem that’s about to be published. Guess that makes me a bon-a-fide poet! Unless you count the 75 cents that was my cut when they passed the hat at a poetry reading many years ago, that’s the first time I’ve gotten paid for...
Buzzheads and other beauties
Without knowing the other one was doing it, these two simultaneously got buzz cuts.My sunglasses are not nearly as cool as my daughter's! But at least I have a cool hat.
Where the wild things aren’t
We went camping this past weekend. On every trip to the bathroom or the beach, and every time my young niece wanted to go for a walk or my daughter wanted to go for a bike ride, we would stop along the path to pick plump purple wild saskatoons. They were delicious....
Seasons change
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 3I’m reading a book called “Leaving Church”. It’s a personal memoir about Barbara Brown Taylor’s experience of giving up the priesthood.Though I didn’t realize the serendipity at...
She likes me, she really likes me
When I get home from work these days, Maddie likes to talk. And talk. Incessantly. We go for a bike ride – she talks. I do laundry – she talks. I wash the supper dishes – she talks. I try to get her to go to bed – she talks.Yesterday she was telling me about a show...
Another year, another Folk Fest
Another great weekend is behind us. We danced, we ate whales' tails, we listened to good music, we tried to hide from the rain, we dreamed about buying funky (but too expensive) clothes from the handmade village, we wandered, we mused, we got muddy, we talked to...
Music to a mother’s ears
Our kids have had to stay at home alone for much of this week, because Marcel is taking some French upgrading and I've been at work. I wasn’t sure how that was going to go. They’ve been alone at home before, but never for a few days in a row like this.Well, it turns...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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