July 25, 2024
So you’ve probably noticed I’m publishing more videos these days, and popping in here more often to tell you about those videos.
Video is a creative edge and form of memoirist story telling I’d like to explore and so you can expect to see more of it here, at least until my video aspirations collide with my grad school schedule come fall! I.e.: I’m not sure what kind of video creation will be sustainable with my paid work, school, writing, homemaking, and relationship tending.
I’ll figure that out later. I’m not going to not do something now because I’m not sure how it will fit into my life in 2 months.
All that to say… I just uploaded another video to YouTube. Not one of my more produced ones but a social media “style” video. The kind you’d post to Instagram, which I will be attempting to do also.
You know the drill by now.
If you’re reading this in email you’ll have to click through to the blog to watch it. Or head straight to YouTube.
I was so enthused by my book haul from the local library that I felt inspired to make a video about my book process:
As I say in this video, I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, outside of my academic interests and research, but I do appreciate and read reference materials, eg: gardening books.
Find me on Goodreads.
July 21, 2024
I know to be suspect of things that are too good to be true. Also, that fairy tales aren’t real. But this summer, as we’d say in grad school, "is challenging those narratives".
July 8, 2024
The YouTube video from our move and first days in Nova Scotia.
June 24, 2024
It has been an unbelievable landing and arrival here. The briefest of days soaked rich with summer, meaning, and import. I can’t say the days will only get better from here because, honestly, this has been a week of highlights. But I do know that Oilers playoffs aside, living here will regularly bring me into contact with magic.
May 30, 2024
The intensity of this whirlpool of experience and emotion has released my ages-old, nebulous, and miasmic fear of failing my children and the more specific fear of the pain (for them and me) of the inevitable struggles, difficulties, and suffering of life.
May 3, 2024
My feminism is a desire to listen and live according to my wild human heart, mind, and body. What this actually looks like is ill-defined; it’s certainly not a program, plan, or anything I would prescribe for someone else. There is no pledge of allegiance in this “ism,” no flag or banner under which I march.
April 5, 2024
I have a goal to produce more more video content after we move to Nova Scotia. But first I'd like to close the Montreal chapter and talk a bit about leaving the kids.