I like to set small goals to build my writing practice and build up a body of work. Maybe other writers can just plow through, but I often find myself stuck. When I need to puzzle out a problem or refresh my brain, I go to the water. A long walk alongside a river or … Continue reading Stepping Stones and Small Goals
January 18, 2024, 7 a.m. Ah, January is the month of beating yourself up for not accomplishing more last year and setting unrealistic goals for the coming year. Rather than repeat that depressing cycle, I’m taking a more sanguine view. Here’s some of what I’m celebrating, what I’m looking forward to, and what’s “out” for … Continue reading 2023 in review, and a new year ahead
I'm so pleased to share that my application for Arts Funding to Communities (for the 2022-23 grant cycle) was accepted, and I was awarded a grant of $2500 for my Poetry & Prose Chapbook project. The grant funding will help me produce a complete edited manuscript, access the support of a professional mentor, conduct research … Continue reading Exciting News: Grant Funding Received from the Columbia Basin Trust and Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance
https://videopress.com/v/w57xHUww?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true This afternoon, I walked down to the beach to get some sunshine and bask in the sound of the waves. I hope this video brings you the same feeling of peace and joy that it does for me.
It’s Saturday - writing day in my world. (In between running errands and doing “mom” things like taking my daughter for her driver’s knowledge test this morning.) On top of that, it’s raining - and has been for two days - after a few days of record-high temperatures. Thirty degrees Celsius on May 3rd (a … Continue reading Today’s Playlist and Music For Piano by Alexina Louie
Snow, rain, snow again, rain.Chill silver air gusts, threatens.Clouds obscure mountains, mist shrouds the river.It is morning in April, grey and dreary. Rushing pattering raindrops on the windows.Warmed by coffee, I cocoon inside,resisting. The storm takes a breath, a lull in the wind.Listen, listen! says the silence. I listen.The birds, unbothered, have retreatedinside the tall … Continue reading Secret Joy
Yo-Yo Ma: Our Common Nature classical.music.apple.com/ca/playlist/pl.bc5b6e6ddc3b45a484899b065cb97e25 Have you tried the new Apple Music Classical app? I recently started using it and enjoy its specific categorization and recognition of the different eras and genres, composers, artists, and other criteria. Today was busy with chores and selling Girl Guide cookies with my unit. Afterwards, I walked to … Continue reading Today’s writing playlist
I come from a teenage mother a blue-collar father a small mining town where they don’t know MBA-speak. I come from parents who split up on the wrong side of the tracks in a dirty home in the trailer park and I smelled like cigarettes. I come from love and contradiction shame and abandonment the … Continue reading Origin Story
A mother’s world consists of countless interruptions, smashing her thoughts back to reality, back to the spilled cranberry juice, a red puddle of accusation on the carpet. All attention, however fragmented, must be aimed at the child at hand, by the mother. Ideas fall away in a shower of glittering fragments, yet tiny moments of … Continue reading Treasure Chest
If I cross off all the days on the calendar that you weren’t here, whole months would be cast adrift into oceans of black ink. Disconnected, broken apart from the other months, only reachable by telephone. Hello? When will I see you again? My island is too far from shore to remember what you look … Continue reading Presence / Absence
Gwen Higgins 