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Who Has Seen the Wind
And all about him was the wind now, a pervasive sighing trough, a great emptiness, as though the prairie itself was breathing in long gusting breaths, unhampered by the buildings of town, warm and...
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Ode to Joy–Holding My New Book
I suppose the picture says it all The proof copy of No Compass to Right arrived and, on first blush, it seems everything I hoped for. Of course, with proof copies, the devil is in the details. I...
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2017 Wild West Rodeo – Making Memories Alberta Style.
Guy Weadick Days in High River, Alberta – Pro Rodeo, WPCA Chuckwagons, food trucks and … stop the presses right there. What more can you ask for? I lunched on pirogues smothered in caramelized onion,...
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Home and Happy
Will you look at that clematis in full bloom right outside the kitchen door! Wow! It’s been two weeks since I came home from my travels in southern Alberta. From the land of rolling fields of canola,...
View ArticleFor the Love of Beans
There’s an old adage about gardening that I fully subscribe to – grow what you like to eat! For us, that means lots of fresh beans. Here are two of my new-time favourites. Dragon Tongue Bush Beans – a...
View ArticleGoing Silent and Coming Back
Well, WordPress followers … if you’re still out there … I’ve gone silent since September 18th, 2018 with my Lady Ashburn Mustard Pickles post. What a post to go out on. By the way, those pickles are so...
View ArticleLiving Through the Pandemic
As I sit tonight and put in my mandatory hour in front of the keyboard, I am thinking about the evening news a few days ago and the fact that January 25th marked the one-year anniversary of the first...
View ArticleLife Happens in the Barren Writing Land
I hung that note on my storyboard this fall. See for yourself the fade to nothingness that is happening to the 5th offering in the Crater Lake Series. A strange phenomenon, really, – not the fading –...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You a Story
It is all about story … what else is there? You can bet that old, battered easel found at the recycling yard has a story. Of course it does. Stories surround us. We are immersed in them, swimming in...
View ArticleWalk Your Way to Health Benefits
The topic of walking is right up my alley (picture me strolling along – LOL) because I’ve always walked. Okay, I hear you … of course you’ve always walked. Started when you were about ten months old,...
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