Farewell to a Mentor

When I made the decision to move from the BC interior to Victoria in early 2020, I was pulled by my connections to people I’d met in Victoria. Over a year prior I had discovered a writing group at the James Bay New Horizons Centre. The group met weekly, and...

A Talk about Awe

On June 18 I gave a talk on the topic “awe” to the Capital Unitarian congregation in Victoria. I prefaced the talk with a brief story (5 minutes) about an experience where I felt awe. I told about an intense time I spent at the Adams River in the Shuswap,...

Planet Earth Poetry Tonight!

I’ve been asked to be the “Poetic Opener” at Victoria’s Planet Earth Poetry weekly readings. Tonight’s the night! I’m opening for wonderful local poet Susan Braley, whose most recent book of poems is “Tilling the...

A Celebration of Poetry

April is National Poetry Month, and last night, the Victoria Writers’ Society acknowledged and celebrated that with an evening devoted to poetry. We met at Russell Books in downtown Victoria, an amazing bookstore with some bookshelves almost two storeys high! The...