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Farewell, Kerry Farm Ice Rink
It’s the beginning of March, and the feel of spring is in the air. Secret Wish: I am holding out for a blizzard or two, as we need more moisture in Southeastern Saskatchewan. Just before we move into...
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Amaryllis
I have been enjoying reading accounts of people who have taken up a creative pursuit during the pandemic. In some cases, they are people in the latter half of their lives. I have particularly enjoyed...
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Willow Dreaming
I began this cut paper collage piece a few springs ago, during a Tree PLAYshop held here at Kerry Farm. I finally returned to it this spring. As I was cutting and gluing tiny willow leaves, I thought...
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Prairie Landscape: A Commentary
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Every Child
I often think about children in December. A lifetime ago, I worked at our community school. I remember the fraught, exciting, and sometimes magical time leading up to Christmas as we tried to make the...
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Sparks from the Book Pile – Lyanda Lynn Haupt
A great pleasure this past winter holiday has been reading. Among my favourite books (ever) is Lyanda Lynn Haupt‘s book Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit. There is so much...
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The Fairy Meets the Inner Critic
Fairy bodies come in all shapes, sizes and colours I planned a paper fairy PLAYshop for January. Omicron came along and knocked that out of the realm of possibility – at least as a real LIVE...
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Tuned In
Note: This post was originally written April 26, 2021, part of a collective response called Reading Robin’s Essay where contributors responded to portions of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay “The...
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Dear Fort Times
Post by Sue Bland, Kate Hersberger, Marsha Cannon, Jill Whiting and Vera Saltzman On June 27, 2022 the Fort Qu’Appelle Times chose to publish an op-ed by Brian Geisbrecht called “We have nothing to...
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Stranded
We are traveling from our large and rambling farm home in Saskatchewan to stay in a tiny studio apartment in Saint John, New Brunswick for a few months. Just getting out the door to leave on a trip is...
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Letter from Saint John
How do you distinguish Saint John, New Brunswick from St. John’s, Newfoundland? From a spelling point of view, you don’t abbreviate Saint and there is no ‘s at the end of John. We are in Saint John,...
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Because They Can’t
Please consider joining a vigil to honour and mourn those Palestinian children, students and teachers killed by the active genocide in Gaza, as well as those who have no access to education this year....
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Nest
This January, I began to weave a nest in a hawthorn branch, using wool I have long cherished. As any self respecting bird will tell you, fingers are not the best tools for creating nests, especially...
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Women of the World!
Flashback: to 30 or so years to when I was raising 4 daughters here at Kerry Farm. I remember just barely keeping my chin above the turbulent water that was carrying me along in those days. There was...
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My Heart is Occupied
“It may seem like it’s someone else’s children [being killed] – but there is no such thing as someone else’s children.” Omar El Akkad In early May, I was reading a news article about Gaza and I...
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Dear Mark Carney, Gaza is Starving
Dear Prime Minister Carney, As you know, as we all know – Gaza is starving. I urge Canada to do everything possible to stop the atrocities of mass starvation, forced removal and genocide in Gaza and in...
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Full Circle
“It may seem like it is someone else’s children (being killed) – but there is no such thing as someone else’s children.” Omar El Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This When I...
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