A Poet’s Nanaimo
Hagitude Part 2
Dr. Sharon Blackie wrote about menopause in her latest book book Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life (New World Library, 2022), and described it as “a time between stories, when the old story fades and a new story is waiting to emerge.” (See my last blog...
Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
“Hagitude, hags with attitude” Dr. Sharon Blackie says in the prologue to her latest book Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life (New World Library, 2022), as she refers to Cailleach , the Old Woman, in the Gaellc languages of Scotland and Ireland. Dr. Blackie...
Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives
That’s a very catchy cover and title for Margot Fedoruk’s memoir published this Fall by Heritage House. The cover illustration is by Setareh Ashrafologhalai who also designed the book’s interior. Margot, who lives on Gabriola Island, B.C., has lived in several places...
The Most Profitable Way
No, this isn’t a blog about money. It’s about rest. The quote is from Virginia Woolf who wrote in her diary on February 16, 1930: “I would like to lie down and sleep, but feel ashamed. Leonard brushed off his influenza in one day and went about his business feeling...
The Great Book of Journaling
Eric Maisel who has written over 50 books on writing, creativity and such topics as establishing your own daily practice, and Lynda Monk, writer and director of the International Association for Journal Writing (IAJW), have gathered an exciting array of contributors...
The Circle is Open 2022
I see I did another blog with the same theme and so I’ve added the year to this one. “The circle is open” is something I say at the end of a women's writing circle: The circle is open but unbroken May the love of the goddess be ever in our hearts Merry meet and merry...