Oct 20, 2011 | News Item, Postings
First posted on Canadian Bookshelf canadianbookshelf.com/ The Man from the Creeks, Robert Kroetsch, 1998, New Canadian Library Kroetsch’s sudden death in June made me pick up his last novel once again. I came to it for the first time a few years ago, ten years after...
Jun 21, 2011 | News Item, Postings
The other evening we noticed a huge bumblebee take an interest in the underside of the porch railing, in the cavity left open by a missing spindle. We watched it investigate and then make itself at home, curling upside down in the opening to sleep. The next morning at...
Jun 9, 2011 | News Item, Postings
My daughter sent me back to the drawing board. “Think about what’s driving each character,” she said, after reading my attempt at a play. “What makes this night different from every other night?” The question gets asked every Passover and for the first time I saw how...
May 26, 2011 | News Item, Postings
I promised my daughter I would write her a play. The promise has been floating in the air for several years already, sincere but vague and open-ended. A few weeks ago I trotted out the promise once again because she’s coming home for a week in early June. “This time...
May 16, 2011 | News Item, Postings
I arrived home several days ago to the old, ongoing question of how to get new writing done when the business of life occupies your mind. My father’s health took a nasty turn in my absence and my sister and brother came to the rescue. So did my husband, who reassures...
