Writing
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September’s First Friday
Today is the September’s Edition of First Friday over at Amy’s WildBird on the Fly. First Friday is a fiction writing contest for 500 word short stories on Birding. I fear that it hasn’t caught on as Amy had hoped as there were no entries for the August edition. If that is indeed the case
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First Friday – The Climb
I said that I’d post my entry to First Friday here today. So here is my first attempt at Birding Fiction…. Update. Hey apparently I won. I must have been the only entry. The Climb This was how the Fall was supposed to smell, the smell of highbush cranberries after the frost. It had been
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The Girl at the Bus Depot
A little over thirty years ago I missed the first day of school in Roblin. Instead I went to Winnipeg and to the concert of one of my favourite bands at the time, Bachman Turner Overdrive. The day before school was to start BTO was Taking Care of Business at the old Winnipeg Arena and
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Porcine Poetry
One of my favourite poets is David Lee, the first Poet Laureate of Utah. When he was first recommended to me, Martin said something along the lines of "he writes about pigs", and I thought to myself that there could not possibly be anything worth writing poetry about pigs. But I read the volume The
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First Friday
Amy Hooper, the force behind Wild Bird on the Fly, has decided to rectify the dearth of Birding Fiction out there with a contest. Her brainchild, First Friday, is set to be a monthly fiction contest, to encourage birding Fiction. The rules are fairly simple, 500 words of birding themed fiction, and no anthropomorphizing the
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Yeats
Politics by William Butler Yeats How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on RussianOr on Spanish politics? Yet here’s a travelled man that knowsWhat he talks about, And there’s a politician That has read and thought,And maybe what they say is true Of war and war’s alarms,But O that
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If it’s raining here, why am I having a dry spell
It’s been raining here since yesterday. Very unusual for May, practically unheard of. With the warmer temperatures and the rain we are really losing snow, shifting the routes the snowmobiles take by the House. One more thing to chalk up to that non-existant climate change. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had recently
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A shift in the world of writing
Want evidence that blogging has become something more than just a way of people sharing their world with others. Baghdad Burning, a blog by an anonymous woman in Iraq, has just been nominated for BBC Four’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. The thirty thousand Pounds Sterling prize is traditionally awarded to books, not blogs. She
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75 Degrees South Northbound
From pretty early on in this adventure one of my favourite blogs to visit has been Simon’s 75 degree South. Simon has spent the last couple of years living and working at Halley V, a British Antarctic Service research base in Antarctica. Antarctica is an incredibly austere, incredibly beautiful land. One that I was lucky