northshorewoman

The other day I went for a morning walk upstream McVicar's Creek. I went with my friend Lilian Mattar Patey. I first bicycled to S...

image source In April, which is poetry month, I attended a poetry workshop with Marilyn Dumont , one of my favourite poets. To prep...

The scent of burning sage signals the opening of ritual space. Small bells circle, gently breaking up energy.  As the drum stick swishes ...

image source It's the beginning of December, and I'm already getting irritated by the glee of Christmas that I find everywhere I ...

Walking by a bulletin board, I saw that a local writing group has an open mike next week; the topic is "Mystery." Somehow, th...

Awhile back, with dismay I read about the 800 year old cedar that was cut down earlier this year in a  protected forest, Carmanah Walbr...

I set my goal to write five poems last week for the Random Acts of Poetry outing yesterday. In an earlier post, I posted "Trickster T...

My sisters and I have been busy. Here's part three of our contribution to FinnThunder 2012, starting tomorrow. Our performance piece i...

My sister, Della, will be performing/singing her story Echo of the Ancestors, this coming Sunday at the FinnThunder Festival . Hope to see...

The Lion ~ by Gwendolyn MacEwen To love is to be remarkable, and flawless. It is to wear the yellow crown of a flawless beast Forever. It i...

On New Year's Eve, in my kitchen as I was making a pot of tea with dried rose petals that my sister-in-law, Zeina, gave me before I left...

"the soft blue glow " of Earth below the Moon. photo by Douglas Wheelock, NASA astronaut. A necessary diversion from my shopping s...