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…

Artists respond to Goderich tornado

“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…

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

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

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

The world outside my office window unfolds like a movie from first glow of dawn to evening frog song. Below it, the birdfeeder…