There's a moment after every move when you stop thinking about where you've come from and start noticing where you are. Not in any dramatic way. It's the accumulation of…
A little over a month ago, I arrived on Vancouver Island with four suitcases and a life that felt as though it had been turned upside down. Since then, I've…
A brief life update from the opposite end of the country: I’m now in Victoria. After more than a decade in Thunder Bay — and the past several years especially…
Spring is traditionally the season of new beginnings — but for me, it’s also the season of renewed curiosity. This year, even in the wake of a profound personal loss…
Over the past two weeks, my life has changed in ways that are both profound and strangely quiet. On March 16, my mother died. For the past twelve years, I…
I’ve been thinking lately about how stories leave their fingerprints on us. We talk so much about shaping characters, refining arcs, and building worlds that we sometimes overlook the quieter…
Writers talk a lot about “sense of place,” but what I’ve realized over the years is that every writer has a very particular sense of place — the kind that…
January always feels like a pause between breaths — a moment when the old year hasn’t quite let go and the new one is only beginning to blink awake. It’s…
December has settled in thickly here — the kind of winter that arrives with its own architecture. Snow rounding the edges of rooftops. The hush that falls over everything once…
For the past several weeks, my writing life has slipped quietly into one of those unexpected “wintering” phases — the kind we don’t always plan for, but usually learn from.…