To end our trip East, we fêted New Years in the S’toon boons with Craig’s brother and family; unwrapped Christmas all over again with Craig’s mum and sister and their four animal pals in small-town Saskatchewan; and Craig absolutely rocked the Animosity metal show at the Black Cat Tavern in Saskatoon on our last night there. ...read more

More about the book launch trip East: I reconnected with my former Carleton prof Bob Hogg over masala dosa (a poet and now a miller, with tales!); attended the Ottawa launch of night flying at rob’s annual Yacht Club Regatta; read to old friends the poems I’d once written for them, in book form, and enjoyed good cheer together; met Stevie Szabad in person, fellow military brat author, and exchanged books; had lovely visits and kind billets with writers Anita Dolman and James Moran, and with long-lost lovely poet Allison Calvern, who I hadn’t seen since about 1999; thrilled to the hilarious Strikeforce poets’ bowling rematch, organized by jwcurry. ...read more

Welcome to blog post #1 on my new site! I am grateful to Derek Mah for his expert help. Back safe from an epic sojourn East with my beau Craig, built around the Ottawa launch of my first book of poems, night flying. What a trip! It will take a couple or three posts to tell you everything. ...read more