Clik here to view.
One Week Old
Spice cake!! My new book-baby is one week old today (never mind the fact that the thing was in process for over a decade!) and we ushered it into the world at a lovely launch last week! J. and I went...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quiet
It’s been pretty quiet around here lately. Following Sea is bobbing out on the surf, and I’ve been busy watching it. I’ve been invited to and have arranged a few readings – including a National Poetry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
House Hunting
Can this kitchen be saved? Last week, J. and I went south to shop for a new house. After a long day of driving, we backed our tent trailer into what could have been the worst car camping site we’ve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beginnings
So, things have been nuts. My mom came to visit, two days after the movers hauled everything into our new house. We picked her up at the airport and – you might already know this – when she got inside...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lie Down Within the Night: Behind My CBC Longlisted Poems
Last spring, and earlier, in the previous winter and fall, I wrote some poems about my brother. One came in the night, in a tent, camped on the rocky shore of the arm of Simonhouse Lake that leads into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ordinary Life
Coffee in a blue and orange pottery mug. The indigo sky pushing at the cold window glass. J. emptying the dishwasher. The dog dozing at the top of the stairs, waiting for his first walk. A dream...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Night In A Haunted Attic….
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Haunting and Haunted: Inside Dalnavert House
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Collage
My brain has been a free-wheeling swirl of colour and ideas lately. Not sure why. Seems, though, like I’m constantly jotting ideas into my notebook – for visual art, fabric art (I’m learning how to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fun!
Me, with artist Dan Dorge’s Muisiriún Illuminé I’ve been thinking about fun lately. Seems strange, given the state of the world. Ugh. But something has shifted in me (if you’re a regular reader, you’ve...
View Article
