August 25, 2011
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 [...]
August 7, 2011
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 [...]