child of the digital

The computer art is back. Perplexing. Leila is five and she draws pictures of keyboards. It’s terrifying. She comes home with fences and princesses, houses and suns too. But it’s this darker, more complex artistic passages that concern me. Space bars. Keyboards. They may seem arbitrary but they must mean something to her. I know […]

a bridge to the moon

I don’t know if it’s Spring, or if it’s some other earthly movement of some kind, but I’ve been thinking about building things lately.New dawns; fresh tracks. The thought of going somewhere. My Aunt Sheila just built a house in Malpeque, (gorgeous Prince Edward Island) and moved in about a month ago. 5 yera old […]

For T, who would be three

Last month, Leila drew her baby sister Tya on this post-it note, and told me to stick it up above the counter. “Then she can always be with us, mum.” March 12th you would be three years old, if you had stayed with us. You’re in a lot of our family art, Ty. Sometimes you’re […]

now go and write the final chapter

So here I am five months into the editorial process and facing writing the last chapter and epilogue of the Tya Chronicles, my memoir of motherhood and loss. But for some reason I’m at a standstill, sitting at the edge and gazing into the abyss, and thinking about what happens at the end of this […]

cosmic variables: exploring ophiuchus

Support group for Sagittarians Last week Minneapolis astronomy instructor Parke Kunkle affirmed that the Earth’s “wobble” has shifted the zodiac signs. First of all, this is a concept that astrologers and astronomers have known for 2,000 years, but after the story went viral on the internet, experts claimed that the zodiac “has changed”, (which it […]

Let’s Start a Movement!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxGZNNNSDCE&feature=player_embedded] Four.Years.Go. Now imagine the possibilities! There’s so much blogging, facebooking, texting, emailing, tweeting, and direct messaging going on these days that I barely know where information is coming from anymore. At first I noticed the title had Nonviolence and Birth Canal in it and I thought that I had somehow been sent the message […]

Home, Away, and Home from Away

On me, it’s like there are three states: Home, Away, and Home from Away.

the heart’s voice: writing the book i need

Deep in my heart I’ve always been a writer. I was just so incredibly daunted by the publishing industry that for years I just didn’t dare to go there. I’ve thought about writing books about almost everything: the countries I have visited, the mysticism that I explored, and the exceptional transition that I underwent in […]

Dear Dialogue,

Dialogue, I have asked for you, and I have received in a powerful way. I’m so sorry that I doubted you, Dialogue, that I never enjoyed writing you. It’s just that in my writing I’ve never needed you, except maybe once in my short “Mannequin Party” from grade eight, which I must, Dialogue, I must […]

URGENTLY NEEDED: a mom’s RE-creation myth

Leila turned 5 on the weekend. She kept asking me when the kids would get here for her Princess and Witch party, because she would still be four until then. “So, now you’re still four?” I asked, the morning of her birthday. Funny, I remembered her being born around 6 a.m. Whoops Mom, going into […]

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