During the summer of 2015, colleague Melanie Chambers and I embarked on “The July Project.” Nutshelll: every day, we went somewhere different in our own backyard (Melanie in greater Toronto; yours truly in Southwest NS) and posted our daily adventures with photos on our websites. Major undertaking. Major learning experience. Major good time drizzled with […]
Hmmm. Seems that you, dear subscriber, have not been receiving my posts. Son James to the rescue! He says, “For some reason the plugin that managed your subscriptions hadn’t auto-updated, and was disabled.” He updated the whozits and whazits and I’m assuming this wee note will get through to everyone. Meanwhile, you may get a […]
Three days short of a year since I popped into view. Wowzas! Rather than look back, here’s the now-news: I have Lyme. Fortunately, I don’t have migraines, extreme joint pain, or worse. What I do have, however, is a debilitating fatigue and ‘brain fog.’ Although I’ve heard that term before, I never knew what it […]
Summer came … and left. And for the first time in years I found myself with time on my hands. Time to enjoy visits with family and friends; time to paddle; time to dawdle in the garden, take photos, read; time to spend at The Shack dabbling in the realm of writing essays; and time […]
In less than three weeks it will be summer. Last I knew, it was winter. Or so it seems. Methinks that time thieves are on the loose again. The good news is that I’ve been preparing to give a workshop for the Writers Federation of New Brunswick via Zoom titled The Power of Prompts. Just […]
Well, that’s not really true. Leaves are very complex in structure, design and makeup, not to mention what they contribute to the life of a tree. But my crazy life of late has slowed down and I can now take the time to do simple things like get up close and personal with a leaf. […]
“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage [to do] that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially […]
Sometimes a simple daisy turns out to be not so simple after all. At first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. But as I moved around the daisy patch our in our back yard, it became evident that these sensational spirals were the norm. Much like working through a maze, I found […]
Yesterday I read this quote by Maya Angelou: If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, […]
Barrie gave me a macro lens for my Birthday last month, about the same time of my last post. But, since then, things kind of ramped up and I went from turtle pace to full bore cheetah run. (Remind me sometime to tell you about discovering Cheetah–my spirit animal.) Anyway, as most of you know, […]
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