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Snow Falling Today
Posted on December 27, 2022 2 Comments
Hello! Boy, is it ever coming down out there this afternoon. I just fed the birds from a fresh bag of seeds I bought this morning. Of course, the blue jay showed up to the feeder first and flung that seed, more costly now than diamonds, far and wide across the backyard. As I post […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 23rd
Posted on December 23, 2022 Leave a Comment
Hello and welcome to “Tibb’s Eve.” That’s what they call the day before Christmas Eve in Newfoundland. I just discovered this today when I asked Newfoundland painter Reilly Fitzgerald if I could showcase some of his bold and bright paintings of winter on Canada’s East Coast. CBC ran a great article today about Tibb’s Eve […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 22nd
Posted on December 22, 2022 4 Comments
It’s nearly Christmas here at what feels like the North Pole! Welcome to December 22nd of the virtual Advent calendar of Canadian art and culture. In these write-ups, I have woefully under-represented Canadian books and authors. So today we’ll look at a work by Thomas King. Thomas King immigrated to Canada in 1980 from the […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 4th
Posted on December 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
What Canadian cultural treasure will reveal itself first from behind the tiny cardboard door of the calendar today? Please let it be rock’n’roll… It is! It is rock’n’roll! The Tragically Hip‘s song “Thompson Girl” from their most awesome album Phantom Power was released in 1998. According to Wikipedia, it won the 1999 Juno Awards for […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 2nd
Posted on December 2, 2022 4 Comments
This is Day 2 of my Advent calendar celebrating Canadian art and culture. Canadian or not, thanks for dropping by! – Lori This morning, the lower left corner of my PC’s monitor says -28 degrees Celsius and, again today, the school buses aren’t running. I was going to go volunteer to read with the younger […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 1st
Posted on December 1, 2022 4 Comments
Canada Waits For Christmas is my Advent calendar series celebrating cold Canadian culture and giving a shout-out to those artists and influencers from north of the 49th parallel. Got an idea for the “calendar”? Share it with me in the comments. As I write this, the temperature is -25 degrees Celsius, the snow is piled […]
Breathing Life Into Reading
Posted on April 8, 2021 1 Comment
A few weeks ago, I received an email through my website. It was from a school librarian in Fort Saskatchewan. She and a couple coworkers were planning a photo tour around Alberta as part of a literacy project. They would visit several communities during their school’s spring break in my area of the province, capturing […]
Prairie Sunsets with Pablo Neruda
Posted on April 4, 2021 4 Comments
For years, I believed Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) to be the soft, starry-eyed poet of the love struck. Of course he was, but this Nobel Prize in Literature (1971) recipient was so much more. “He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does not risk […]
In Praise of Small Towns
Posted on November 23, 2020 8 Comments
Wouldn’t it be great to live in an affordable home with a huge backyard and with sweeping views of a pristine valley in which deer graze at sunset? When you’re exhausted at the end of the day from work, doesn’t it sound ideal to avoid the traffic of your lengthy commute and instead walk up […]
Book Review: Remember Me As You Pass By
Posted on May 14, 2020 4 Comments
Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards Written by Nancy Millar Remembering that we all die has the power to put our small discomforts and minor disputes automatically into perspective. The fact of death is the truest thing I know. And nothing drives the truth of mortality home like a stroll through […]
Lori Knutson 