Coast Lines

Some readers may know that I maintain a blog called “Coast Lines”. I enjoy exploring Victoria from the perspective of a walker, and I occasionally post to my blog about things I discover that inspire me. I also love taking photographs, and the Coast Lines...

Poetry, Trees and Collective Action

I attended a writing workshop on January 21 with Winnipeg author Ariel Gordon. She came with a couple of books: As you can tell — she is passionate about trees! That makes Ariel someone after my own heart, as anyone who reads my blog posts will know. I did a...

December 2023 Column

I’ve mentioned my plans to organize my Friday AM columns into a book. Since climate change is on all our minds, I thought I’d post my December column in this space. Friday AM has been a fixture in Salmon Arm’s media landscape for well over twenty...

News: Another Book in Progress

For over four years I’ve written a monthly column for the Salmon Arm paper Friday AM. Located in the BC interior on Shuswap Lake, Salmon Arm is an attractive small city of about 20,000. I lived in the area for over two decades, and began the column...

A New Poem

I read a new poem at Planet Earth Poetry the evening of October 6. It seemed that listeners enjoyed it, so I recorded a reading of it. I wrote the first draft during an online workshop in June given by the Victoria poet Carla Funk. I’ve participated in several...