Sanctuary
How to recover the story telling
December 21, 2024
I have so many thoughts swirling these days on my writing. What it has become, and how it’s changed. I don't know how to recover what is lost. Here’s what I do know. I want to tell the story of my life. And I have more than my words to tell that story. Another thing I know. I want to tell that story here, on my blog. Not on Instagram. Not on Facebook.
Tree Day & Getting Ready for Christmas
December 18, 2024
The timing of holiday preparations are not a tradition for us. What we do and when we do it and how much of it we do really depends on the year and where we're having Christmas. But now that live in this home are there definitely tree traditions to uphold.
The power goes out and the writing goes on
December 9, 2024
Writing papers on weekends is not how I want to live my life at 49 years old, but this too shall pass.
Grocery shopping day
December 5, 2024
Thursday is grocery shopping day because Thursday morning is the Lunenburg Farmer’s Market and I want to combine all my shopping on one day.
These December Days
December 4, 2024
One of the things I wanted to do when I moved to Nova Scotia was to return, in some way, to telling the story of my life on my blog. To steer my writing more memoirist and less analytical
September update: my Montreal trip, a time of solitude, folk festival and building project videos
September 24, 2024
A short, newsy update and most recent videos.
Thoughts on social capital and location independence in a time of climate change (and other crises), in the context of an intergenerational familial “homestead”
August 26, 2024
Our social networks matter. And passing along social networks to our children is a way that parent’s help their children establish themselves in life.
