I like to run. It’s a form of meditation for me, my brain quiet and compliant while I huff and puff up and down my road. Walking doesn’t stop my busy brain the way running does. Running allows me to disconnect, to escape computers and phones and beeps and bongs, […]
Wendi Stewart – Wendi with an ‘eye’
Wendi lives in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, but the farm on Rainy River in Crozier will always be her home. MEADOWLARK, her debut novel released September 15, is published by NeWest Press of Edmonton. She is the mother of four daughters who did the unforgivable: they grew up. http://wendistewart.writersresidence.com
I was driving out of the parking lot at the grocery store a few days ago. At the stop sign was a homeless man, holding a sign asking for spare change. He was dirty and dishevelled, looking sad and ashamed, and he wasn’t young. We don’t see homeless people in […]
Clouds are visible accumulations of tiny water droplets or ice crystals in the Earth’s atmosphere, according to elementary school science class and the National Geographic. That may very well be true, but children know much more than that. Clouds are giant fish, dragons, balloons, dogs, and anything else that presents itself […]
October 4th is the day we honour and remember the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. It is indeed a disturbing and heartbreaking reality that so many tragedies of this nature exist, but the reminder is essential to achieve change, so that one day the compiling of […]
When I hear Murray Sinclair’s name mentioned, I pay attention. He is on my list of individuals who will leave the world better than they found it, an accomplishment every single one of us should aspire to. Mr. Sinclair is Anishinaabe and a member of the Peguis First Nation. Chief […]
I love September, when summer’s heat has taken its leave for the most part. September mornings are fresh and bright. It’s “sweater-weather” as Saturday Night Live’s Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph so humorously told us with their imposed exaggerated Bronx accents. I never tire of watching that skit. I’m a […]
I am sometimes confounded by the obvious differences in people’s behaviour. I don’t expect us to all react the same in certain situations or even behave in a manner that is reflective of our similarities, but … I am a people watcher and what better time to watch people than […]
Steve Hartman helps make the world a little nicer, a little kinder with his gentle perspective. He is loved by everyone who knows him and even by those, like me, who have never met him. He tells stories of people who make us smile, who make us try harder, who […]
The empowerment of women is sliding in the wrong direction these days. I tend to blame just about everything on a certain individual to the south of us and though he qualifies as a confirmed threat to the democracy and has earned the lion’s share of blame for disrespecting the […]
I love books, love holding them in my hand, a single inventory of the alphabet brought together in a meaningful way that matters to me. I do read on my iPad, but it is the physical book that I feel the deep connection with, the sound of the turning of […]
Last night was one of those sleepless nights, the kind of night that saw hour after hour saunter by my bed in no particular hurry, throwing me a look of disdain, thumbing its nose at me, even snickering under its breath. I pretended not to notice, pretended I had planned […]
I love libraries, adore them. I love strolling up and down the aisles listening for all the whispered words leaking out from between the covers, words that someone spent immeasurable hours to arrange in what she/he deemed the perfect order, words that wakened someone at night from a deep sleep […]
