I haven’t been hiking lately because I injured my knee (with me it’s always the knees that are the first to go). So I’ve been following RICE (rest, ice, compress, elevate) and thinking about how I want my life to go over the next few years. Now that I’ve finished my fifth book review in...

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Usually the last Wednesday of the month is reserved for a book review. But I’ve been reviewing so many books lately that I don’t want to do another one for this post. Instead, I want to talk about what I’ve gleaned from the books I’ve reviewed lately, and what my reaction has been. I’ve reviewed...

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I’ve taken today’s blog title from author Haruki Murakami’s book: What I Think About When I Think About Running. It’s a memoir about being a runner, which started the same way he became a novelist. He decided one day to become a novelist, sold his nightclub, and sat down to write. One day he decided...

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For the past two weeks I haven’t been on my hikes at Cobble Hill Mountain. I miss it – the dampened sound of my feet on the forest duff, the neat things I can take a picture of and share on IG or X or BlueSky. The feeling of having accomplished something by making my...

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A few days ago a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she’d written a draft of the trickiest chapter of her book, something she was really pleased with. Then she went on to say that it was hard to work that long because she has long COVID and late-diagnosed autism. Her comment made me...

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I’ve been in the midst of copy edits for my book manuscript, so thought this week would be a great time to share some edited sentences and sentences from my recent walks. Kind of like I did in this blog post back in April. The editing process is pretty thorough. Many sentences have been changed,...

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This week is meant to be a book review week, but I’ve been having trouble deciding what to review. I thought about Amy Lin’s Here After, but it’s so sad and made me cry. I thought about Erin Zimmerman’s Unrooted, but realized I’d already reviewed it here (I also interviewed her for Terrain.org). I mentally...

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Let’s start with the good news. My book officially has a webpage with University of Alberta Press! Isn’t the cover fabulous? Hopefully they’ll add a pre-order link sometime soon – something I need to ask them about. Please share with your friends and networks to get the word out! — In bad news, it’s happened...

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I’m cheating in my photo blog this month by posting pictures of the books I’ve been reading. Most of them I’ve enjoyed, though one I haven’t started yet. I picked eight books and one magazine (Orion), because the magazine is as hefty as a novella. Let me know which books you’ve enjoyed recently! I came...

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Because of my illness, I often have to rest, but I don’t want to lie down and sleep. I just need to give my brain a breather from concentrating on recipes, housework, or gardening. It’s at times like these that I turn to the internet. We all know the refrain that scrolling (or doomscrolling) is...

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