This is why I write, why I strive to improve, to do better, to do this. Exactly this: “It is this experience of seeing something one has...

I’m off to Banff for a week of writing and quiet. I’m not sure what the balance will be – I’m hoping for some quiet time in the...

I walked through the Reader Rock Garden with my mom and younger daughter, admiring the late summer blooms. It’s an old garden, long...

After all our chaos, this has been a remarkably quiet week. My husband and older daughter are in Ontario, getting her settled for...

Annie Dillard in The Writing Life wrote “Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it?” I...

Nursed a sliced thumb-tip, had an enormous fight with my printer (it finally caved and got back to work. Well, once I’d figured out how...

We have a title: the third in the Veil of Magic series has been named The Veil Weavers, following The Nexus Ring, and Crow Boy. I’ve...

I wrote about Stanley Glacier in Crow Boy, but couldn’t hike in to get a good picture. Then I could hike in, but the photos were pathetic...

I’m supposed to be editing, but I’ve had no brain for it. I’ve been pulled in a million directions – summer and family and renovations...

It feels like fall ­– a bit of wind, a touch of coolness in the air – and I love it. I know some people will bemoan the lack of heat this...

I keep hoping to write The Renovation Is Complete, but it still isn’t. We’re limping along, edging closer to completion, but we’re still...

Once my lungs settled down we hiked in to the glaciers at Mount Edith Cavell. One of the glaciers is called the Angel, with wings spread...

While I’ve had much less trouble with asthma this summer than in many years, the altitude at the Athabasca Glacier nailed me. I spent our...

I took the manuscript for the third in the Veil of Magic series with me on our trip into the mountains, to check on details before we...

I wrote about Stanley Glacier in Crow Boy, but I had to write the description from memory and research, as my asthma was too bad to be...

In the continued distractions of summer and holidays and ongoing renovations (yes, the project continues to haunt us), I decided to put...

We were walking back from the Paint Pots when we met a marmot. Well, surprised a marmot, on the trail. We were all shocked, I think. He...

We just spent a couple of nights at a favorite mountain retreat that shall remain nameless as we love it and don’t want to slag it. But...

We have baby magpies. Again. Four of them, of various sizes. The larger ones are sleek, with adult tails; the smallest is still fluffy...

I wrote an entire chapter this morning. No interruptions, no renovations, only magpies squawking as background noise. Now, what will this...