Book Review: Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s CACOPHONY OF BONE
Kerri ní Dochartaig’s new book, Cacophony of Bone, is an exploration of what it means to tie oneself to a place and experience it unreservedly over the course of a year.
mental health
Planning Ahead: The Vagaries of Chronic Illness
This week we were supposed to be in the Rockies. My mental health had other ideas.
The Anxious Traveller
Anxiety doesn’t listen to logic, but there are coping mechanisms to help manage it.
Waiting
Lately I feel like I’ve been waiting for many things – but how productive is waiting, really?
Writing Drought
When a writing drought lasts so long you think you’ve hit the aridification stage.
Small Things
Celebrating the small things with mini garden stories.
Beginning Again
Dealing with a chronic illness can leave you feeling like you’re always beginning again.
The Former Scientist
This past weekend I read Lynn Martel’s new book, Stories of Ice, and really enjoyed the focus on glaciers of western Canada and the adventure, … Read more
A Writer Must Write
Lately I’ve been having trouble writing. Maybe I can find my way back by writing about my father, whom I lost in July.
Doing Versus Being
Sometimes having a chronic illness means you can’t reach the goals you’d planned for, and you have to put them off for a while.
