I must confess—I am a rule follower. I never harboured any notions of being a rebel while I was growing up. I didn’t stay out late to break curfew. I was a relatively well-behaved teenager. I struggle, as an adult, to enter a building through the exit, like at Home […]
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 like January sunshine—sunshine that melts the snow and ice off the roads and leaves the roads bare and dry, looking almost brand new. Last Friday was just such a day with everything looking beautiful and peaceful. It’s early January days, with 2015 just barely out of the starting blocks, […]
I had the ’flu for more than a week leading up to Christmas, which left me flat out for days. I’m not looking for sympathy, though some chicken soup would have been nice. But I suppose you were busy with your Christmas preparations, such as last-minute shopping, trimming the tree, […]
I’m reading a book about meditating for beginners. It’s an easy read, not causing me a brain cramp trying to decipher the language. The first point the book makes is how we must live with the understanding that everything is constantly changing. The continents are drifting, the winds are shifting, […]
’Tis the season, isn’t it? The season of joy, no matter our stand on faith and religion. It is the season of hoping and smiling, and the season of imagining. It is the season of lights and parades and cookies and bad eating habits (especially if we happen to be […]
Breaking points. We all have them. And sometimes these breaking points come at times that seem slightly strange, hardly warranted, but it is the accumulated affect usually—the last straw so to speak. I witnessed someone hit that wall during my Christmas shopping (not on my top 10 list of favourite […]
I have my father’s camera—the one he took with him to India when he was stationed there during the Second World War. I’m not sure where and when he bought the camera, but I’m guessing he had it tucked into his kit when he ferried a Liberator from Gander, Nfld. […]
Buckle up! I have some ranting to do. I’d apologize before I begin but what would be the point. Sometimes you just have to throw it out there; get it off your chest. When I sat down to the read the Halifax paper last week. . . . Wait, let’s […]
I was thinking this morning, while Gracie and I walked and enjoyed the crisp morning air and the sunshine, while I tried not to shiver, tried to ignore the feeling that winter is barking at my heels. I was thinking about the planet and our reluctance to care for her, […]
Nov. 20 is the United Nation’s designated day for Universal Children’s Day. Why was this date set aside for children and what was the intention of the UN? Probably to remind us of the legacy we are leaving for our children and grandchildren—a legacy that has the planet gasping for […]
I am Canadian. I’m not A Canadian or THE Canadian. I am Canadian, in the same way I am brown-eyed and right-handed. I am Canadian. I take great pride in this attribute; not in the sense that being Canadian makes me superior to any other, though it certainly makes me […]
I’ve just made a gigantic pot of “Harvest Soup,” filled with garden goodness of homegrown vegetables like butternut squash (of which we have enough to solve world hunger), onions, carrots, leeks, and garlic. The chicken stock was brewed on my own stove from the carcasses of happy, organically-fed chickens—chickens who […]
