Coexisting with a construction site next door is gruesome. If I write anything about the damage to our property I’ll be completely...

Someone on Facebook recommended this audio recording while I was on holidays. Internet service was inadequate to listen to it, and I’m so...

1. Paper breeds. There is no other explanation for the neverending piles on my desk. 2. I’m obsessive about pens. 3. And I’m obsessive...

Driving up to Jasper, we saw signs of flooding on the Icefields Parkway. There were dozens of spots where creeks carried rocks onto the...

I’ve been thinking about my favorite Canadian garden writers. Tottering in My Garden by Midge Keeble is an old favorite, a narrative of...

The Veil Weavers will be available as an e-book starting next week. Yeah!!! That’s all of them, now, except The Nexus Ring. That’s coming...

I was up early this morning, working in the garden before it got hot and too allergic for me. I worked, and then showered, to get...

Yesterday I sat and wrote at one of my favorite places in the world (well, when there’s no one else around), the head of Moraine Lake, a...

I try to have a routine, to be quiet, deeply quiet, to work in solitude and somehow my life resists. And it’s resisting in larger and...

They’re taking our sidewalk away! Just in case the construction next door wasn’t enough for us, we get more. I’m used to the hammering...

I have a writer minion. I shall be the envy of all my writer friends, and I shall gloat. My younger daughter is helping me this summer,...

While for most of the city life is back to normal, it really isn’t. We’re edgy, tense during thunderstorms, uneasy when it pours, waking...

A week after the flooding began in Calgary, I met with my writer friend Rona Altrows, and we talked about how amazing a story the...

My latest bit of writerly play is running coffativity (http://coffitivity.com/) with music as a background for writing. What does that...

Wildflowers bloomed everywhere on our last trip to the mountains. My best picture: white camas (Zygadenus elegans). According to my...

We’re in the mountains, staying at Baker Creek at the western edge of the recent flooding. We’ve seen signs of flooding all the way up –...

We’ve been through trauma in Calgary and southern Alberta, as flood waters poured across the land. It’s been an amazing story, of fear...

After a month of rain, sometimes torrential, and then blistering heat (brief, thankfully), the garden is bursting with blooms. In the...

The light keeps changing at my house. When the neighbour’s beautiful spruce trees were cut down and the house demolished, we were flooded...

There’s a map in Calgary that tells the story of the flood, and how it affects each person. The evacuation zones are mapped out – and...