Monthly Archives: August 2011

Crows Nest Pass

  August 25, 2011 On my way to Fernie BC last month (I was an instructor in the terrific week-long Fernie Writers Conference along with fellow scribes  Andreas Schroeder and Marina Endicott), I drove the scenic and historical route through the Crows Nest Pass via Highway 3 which took me through the old coal mining towns [...]

Sunday at the Abbey

a rather Byzantine version of Benedict, the 6th century Italian saint and monastic St Peter’s Abbey near Muenster, Saskatchewan, is a community of  Benedictine Brothers on whose grounds the Saskatchewan Writers Guild holds a writing retreat every summer. I have been coming for years – it is now a kind of ritual for me because [...]

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