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Speed River Journal is going to turn into a photo blog for the month of November. You might ask, “Doesn’t this blog already…

Cooking up a calm

I can always tell when something is hanging over my head because I lose interest in the kitchen. Pickling cucumbers rot in the…

“Nature giveth and taketh all,” says an inscription on The Tree of Life, a new sculpture in a Goderich, Ontario, park. On August…

My weekend retreat brought a burst of creativity. It has been many months since I did so much pen-and-paper writing in the space…

We need to dream, but how often do we count our dreams fulfilled? Last month I blogged my bucket list, a list of…

Blogging every day in May for the WordCount Blogathon has been a fascinating adventure. Not in years have I devoted so much time…

This is a themed post for the WordCount Blogathon. If I started blogging today, I would stick to following my passion. Doing so…

It was good to be away. It is good to be home. Normally vacations leave me mildly depressed about returning to life as…

I have always been a writer. Nothing else I do feels so powerful, but somehow, somewhere along the way I lost faith in…

We all need people who inspire us, whether heroes, models, mentors or friends. During the WordCount Blogathon Speed River Journal will present a…