Helgatha
STORYTELLING | Once upon a time, more than a decade ago now, I had a fight with my husband. And I ran off to a hotel in downtown Toronto to deal with my feelings, because I was right and correct ...
Stories from home
HELLO | It is sincerely disturbing to be typing here, directly witnessing exactly how long it’s been since I updated this site. A lot has changed since my last post (which was evidently ...
Smile less
HONOURABLY MENTIONED | I stopped submitting creative work approximately twenty years ago. The why is easy to remember, hard to remember, and boring to talk about. Why does anyone do anything in ...
Poetry weekend no. 22
NERVES ABOUND | My new friend Jordan Trethewey (someone I met only about a year ago, by chance, here in Fredericton) has been campaigning to get me more involved — involved in the city of ...
Winter words at the abbey
TONIGHT TONIGHT | So in November of 2024, I did an event at the Fredericton Public Library for Indie Authors. I had a table for myself and all of the authors who wanted to participate from my ...
Sentinel fragments
FRAGMENTS | Are you seeing this? With my thumbs, in the dark, I wrote a first draft of this essay (if it is an essay?) in January, soon after the COVID-19 death toll in the United States crossed ...
The buried, alive
MUSINGS | Another month gone and I’m still buried in it. I have been trying to write more like I talk, or rather, more like the way I talked before parenthood and perpetual exhaustion ...
Go deep
MUSINGS | It’s the end of the year as we know it. I’ve been trying to write about depth — a sort of metaphorical piece (you know I love those) about being in the deep, in the dark places. ...
I go back to black
THE ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | The Yellow Bathroom Revealed! I set my alarm for 6:45 am today. Right around sunrise. My little yellow bathroom gets the best light right at the start of the day. ...
Ministry of the Interior, Open Notebook
Something to look forward to?
RAMBLING | Is this about the ORC? About house hunting? About something else entirely? It’s 8:10pm on the night the ORC posts are supposed to go up and I’m lying in bed next to my five year old, ...
Champagne wishes, caviar dreams
DECORATING | Okay, so here we are on week three of the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge and I’m talking cheap wallpaper. And I am feeling poor. I’m not REALLY poor. I mean, I have ...
Burnt
PERSONAL ESSAY | In mid-September, I got a sunburn. My first. My skin — a majority of my skin, the largest of all my organs — reddened and tightened, and the inside of my clothing rasped against ...