It’s fall, and we didn’t really have a summer. Last year we missed fall entirely, and this year, our summer was wet and cool. My mint and...

I’m reading An Editor’s Advice to Writers; The Forest for the Trees, by Betsy Lerner. She quotes Maxwell Perkins: “We must somehow bring...

I’ve finished the first draft of the sequel to Feather Brain. I set it aside for a few days and then read it right through. When I...

When I was struggling to write Cursed, I had tea with a writer friend. She said when she’s struggling with a story, sometimes she’ll have...

We were in Jasper this week for a lovely end-of-summer holiday. My husband took these photos, along the Icefields Parkway, and of...

In Cursed, Jane is cursed by the Spirit Man statue in her grandmother’s bathroom. I’ve found the Spirit Man’s soundtrack – Kiri Te Kanawa...

I’m in a flurry of activity for Cursed!, my new Orca Young Reader coming out in the fall. We’ve set a launch date – October 16,...

I’ve wondered what other writers do when they’re looking for distraction, besides the obvious cleaning the toilet and weeding the garden....

There’s a new set of readings on my website, maureenbush.com. My husband helped again, the lovely man, recording me reading short clips...

My family bought the Jackie Chan movie Shanghai Noon so we could admire my sock. My younger sister worked on the movie (it was filmed...

Another trip to the Rockies. We saw at least a dozen deer, at different times, a cluster of mountain sheep (accompanied by a serious bear...

I read a wonderful story, Skellig, by David Almond (Delacourte, 1998). YA fiction, very brief, magical. I plan to reread it, to see how...

A few weeks ago I met a couple of city workers out to look at my malingering butternut. We discovered we all adore the smell of mock...

I have been writing, even though all my recent blogs are about wildlife in my garden, storms, and the mountains. I’m working on the...

We spent two nights at Storm Mountain Lodge, near Castle Mountain, in Banff National Park. Sunday night – a huge thunderstorm, rain...

We came home from a lovely, although cold and wet, two days in the Rockies, to find our garden thoroughly hailed. The old van has...

Besides the crows and magpies, our visitors include grackles, sparrows, robins, a very large bunny, bees swarming the veronica and...

In the last few months we’ve had crows hanging around the house. My mom says it’s because they know I’m writing about them. I think they...

We walked through the bird sanctuary hoping for birds, and found two deer.