I feel different. How about you? Twenty-seventeen was a jarring blur most of the time. It was a year of grand opportunities resulting in grand failures that rocked me to my core. Life lessons burst[ed] (is that a word?) forth like flowers blooming in one of those time-lapse videos. If my life last year were… Continue reading Twenty-Eighteen, Baby
Category: Writing Life
Firefly Creative Writing – The Gift that Keeps On Giving! Special post interview with Chris Kay Fraser
Firefly Creative Writing flew into my life one afternoon when I was dreaming about finding a writing retreat. I was google-dreaming - searching things like 'amazing writing retreat' and 'beautiful writing space'. Firefly appeared in one of the lists and I was immediately attracted to its light. Seriously. The font in the logo, the colours… Continue reading Firefly Creative Writing – The Gift that Keeps On Giving! Special post interview with Chris Kay Fraser
Two new blogs at the League of Canadian Poets
I've got two blogs posted at the League of Canadian Poets' website! Since this is some weather for reading (snowy, chilly, beautiful, makes you wanna snuggle!), maybe take some time to have a read! One was written in the summer...so we can remember that kind of warmth. It's about solitude. Ahhh, yes. We writers love that!… Continue reading Two new blogs at the League of Canadian Poets
The Pantoum & Other Poetics
Our reading, writing and crafting poetry workshop at the library last evening was soooooo wonderful and inspiring! Thank you to Dave, Beth, Ellie, Tammy, Jaylynne and Miller for joining us! Dorothy [Mahoney] was a stellar teaching - gifting us with the pantoum - a repetitive formulaic poetry that we followed to write our own poems!… Continue reading The Pantoum & Other Poetics
VANESSA SHIELDS 