I haven’t watched much of the 2016 Summer Olympics on television even though I thoroughly enjoy sport; admire the dedication and commitment these athletes demonstrate to get to play on the world stage. If I had to pick a favourite sport, that would be a tough decision, but the 100-metre […]
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
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” So said Thomas Mann, a German writer who, in 1929, won a Nobel Prize in Literature for his thoughts; those thoughts he recorded on paper. I am just such a coward, it would seem. And when the war I […]
I suppose I could be classified as odd, a quality I’m quite fond of though I’m not sure everyone has such an aspiration. Thankfully, for me, being odd comes rather naturally, doesn’t require much effort at all on my part. Plus, I think my oddness tops the list of attributes […]
If you follow the news with any regularity, it’s safe to say the upcoming U.S. election is fraught with fear and angst while hope has all but left the building—and that is an understatement of the colossal kind. The rhetoric makes my teeth hurt while I watch (if I watch) […]
Are you familiar with lupines? They are of a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, just in case you wanted to know. Actually, they are of a genus of flowering plants in the legume family even if you didn’t want to know. Lupines grow freely in the abandoned […]
My friend has died; he is away as my grandmother said of death. Mike and I went to high school together, knew each other almost immediately, and for five years we had many of our classes together and we were friends. When I heard of Mike’s passing I felt an […]
Remember when I related the story of the mother of my very dear friend warning me that no one said life was going to be easy? Well, my life is in one of those not-so-easy phases at the moment. Having said that, there is something about doing laundry that brings […]
I just arrived home from a whirlwind road trip with Daughter #4. Thea is here visiting me from Alberta and we decided to take Cape Breton by storm. And that’s exactly what we did—except the storm that blew up was not what we were expecting. But then where storms are […]
I recently was short-listed for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize that recognized six of the many first novels by Canadian writers in the literary fiction category. Or rather “Meadowlark” was short-listed. I just was along for the ride. I flew into Toronto for a rush overnight trip; flew into […]
I was thinking of heroes the other day—heroes whom I admired while I was in my “impressionable years.” I’m still impressionable so while I was watching the eulogies for the passing of Muhammad Ali and felt the ache at the loss of Gordie Howe, and the reminder that time marches […]
I’m a fan of galloping. It could be my rural upbringing, but galloping was a normal mode of transportation for me—long before “Monty Python” successfully cornered the market on the gallop for those who would gallop in the silliest of manners. Galloping and skipping; with skipping coming in a close […]
I was doing a Sunday morning walk with CBC Radio and Michael Enright’s “The Sunday Edition” playing in my ears. Michael (because I am on a first-name basis with my CBC people) offered up the recording of Justice Rosalie Abella’s recent address to the graduates from Yale Law School. I […]
