by Sarah Weaver | Jan 23, 2024 | Commentaries
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Dec 1, 2023 | Commentaries
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Nov 6, 2023 | Commentaries
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Oct 9, 2023 | Commentaries
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Jul 15, 2023 | Commentaries
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Jun 22, 2023 | Commentaries
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,...
