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 […]
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 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 […]
Mother Nature has let her indignation be known in response to how we continue to mistreat this land mass upon which we sit whilst twirling around the sun. Fort Frances and area residents know all too well what happens when water decides to go where it isn’t wanted. Here in […]
The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) kicked off in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) on July 16 with over 5,000 athletes from 756 Nations across North America of youths aged 13 to 19 years old, along with coaches and officials. The opening ceremonies at the Scotiabank Centre in downtown Halifax were enjoyed by […]
I was reading about Canada’s justice system, specifically about the rates of recidivism, and generally about a system seemingly obsessed with incarceration with little if any focus on prevention of crime, how to help our most vulnerable before they find themselves in trouble. Do we have a system in Canada […]
I was sorting through old photos the other day and came upon four-year-old me with my cat in my arms. Muff was my first pet. She had the softest of soft furs, pussy willow grey, trimmed with a white face and four white paws. She had a serious demeanour at […]
A coincidence is a remarkable occurrence of events without an obvious causal connection. We rarely take note of these occurrences, but yesterday one such event stopped me and …. got me thinking. On my desk was a blank piece of paper on which I had written COLUMN followed by the […]
