When I turned 50, Brent had a surprise birthday party for me. We drove down a dark country road to a community hall with a packed parking lot. Still I didn’t catch on. Our friends who were with us told me someone had turned the hall into a temporary restaurant out here close to the […]
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I left my suitcase in Montreal. When I flew home from Mexico a few months ago, after a 10-day self-directed writing retreat during which I worked my process (the Mexican version which involved a terrace and sun and flowers) and made progress on a project — I plotted out my trip home very carefully. It
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Recently, I booked an interview with Reinekke Lengelle, author of Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience to interview her for the first part of my doctoral writing project. I loved her book so much and found it so helpful that I made notes in the margin with my
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The second time I registered for “Introduction to Pickleball” at the gym I joined, I felt sneaky. Were we even allowed to take it twice? Don’t ask, I told myself. Just do. I worried the coach would recognize me from two days before, and my first time through. He didn’t seem to. Then, because I
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We went to the symphony this week and one of my favourite parts was watching the conductor and musicians receive their applause. They performed “Shelley, Strauss & Goosby,” and I know this only from going back to read my ticket, and not from any sophistication in my musical knowledge. But I know what I like.
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