Featuring the works of author Patti Murphy
Let me start by saying that I grew up in a place where it snowed in a serious way. We measured the ferocity of any given snowstorm not in centimetres fallen or km/h gusted, but by whether or not we could still see the neighbours. The wind could be blowing the roof right off the house, great drifts of snow could be burying the…
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I forgot how long a chapter can take. I forgot how you start off and then you realize you don’t know where you’re going and then you figure it out, but then pretty soon, you get lost again and that this is basically how the whole book goes, over and over. I forgot how much you doubt yourself. I forgot how deep-down-in-your-bones wonderful it…
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I am not ashamed to say that I wept a little today when I read that the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver had died of lymphoma at 83. I’d never met her, but like all great poets and writers, she made me feel like I knew her – like we went for long walks in the woods together as friends, remarking on the…
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Long time readers of this blog will know that I place a very high value on the notion of self-care. (I don’t always practice it – to wit, I’ve been sick with one damn thing after another since Labour Day, but I do place a very high value on the notion of it, despite my own personal shortcomings.) So perhaps in the spirit of…
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