Beth Caldwell – The View From Here

There are men who somehow just grip your eyes and hold them hard like a spell and such was he, as he pointed the flashlight in my direction and with inflection, all bundled in woollies and lumberjack red, his face unshaven, said—as I turned my head—“The lady that’s known as […]

I was sitting on my wicker couch by the creek a couple of days ago on one of those windy September afternoons that produces very bad hair and smacks of a season I am not yet prepared for. Where did the summer go? I could have sworn it was June […]

Sometimes when I open my mouth, what comes out are words I wish I had never said out loud. I’ve made that mistake a few times lately and, of course, the afterlife of regret lingers longer than it’s welcome, like the smell of campfire in my hair that takes two […]

Maybe my pets can read and thus know that I write about them. Maybe when I’m gone to work, they make themselves at home in the living room (where the “Dog Rule” manual states they are not allowed) and read my column in the newspaper—or perhaps they surf my online […]

I’m staring at a blank screen. My mind is empty and the clock is ticking. This scenario doesn’t happen to me very often when it’s time to write my column. It means my life is sailing along on with calm winds at my back and my slate is relatively clean. […]

My soul sister told me the other day over tea that she wants to “live in colour.” The desire was voiced after sharing her sadness about the recent death of a friend. We talked a long time about this, and we both had a compelling sense to fall into the […]

First of all, I am writing this with sea legs and if I didn’t feel the floor under my writing desk in my bedroom I would swear I was on the sailboat socking through the waves on Rainy Lake. It’s incredible how the human body continues to process motion some […]

Sailing has sparked a fresh start in so many ways for this gal, who is standing up and cheering because her ship has come in. I am happily involved as a budding member of the Rendezvous Yacht Club, and learning as much about life and myself as I am about […]

Sometimes I think I’m “all that” and I am! And then I do idiocy and dig my bicycle out of a two-year storage, plunk on a helmet made for a bigger brain, and pedal like the dickens (because I was going to be late) the 8.5 km to work. About […]

In general terms I do not like ants. They show up inside the house where they are not welcome, and on occasion there is the one ant that is so much bigger than I expect and it freaks me out. On the other hand, ants also fascinate me and I […]

Short, sweet, and to the point. That’s my goal as I write this at 4:30 a.m. on a Tuesday—paddling madly against the tide in the procrastination bay of time frames for my column. I’m not sure where the last week went. I lost track of it at “Hello” and then […]

In his book “Illusions,” Richard Bach penned, “You teach best what you most need to learn.” I write about a lot of life’s little quirks, home runs, jagged points, and ocean waves. I’m not sure I do this to teach anybody anything. In fact I write to help heal my […]