We attended the 9th annual “Get it Together” Scattered Seeds spring show this past weekend at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg. Long time readers of the blog may recall I previously wrote about Scattered Seeds last April. For some of my perennially favourite exhibitors, please check out last year’s post at: http://doreenisthewizardofwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/scattered-seeds-spring-show.html. We rarely miss the Scattered […]
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the province of Manitoba, Canada, you may not have heard of the Interlake Region. So it is even more unlikely that you’ve heard of Chatfield, a tiny community 79 miles northwest of Winnipeg (just past Inwood along Highway 17.) The highlight of the community was the Chatfield
I write periodical articles and books to inform my readers and to entertain them. Fortunately, my writing style lends nicely to that combination. I pretty much write like I talk. Hopefully the content is interesting and intriguing but will still bring a smile to your face or happiness in your thoughts. Most of us in
Today, I had the pleasure of visiting the Scattered Seeds craft show & sale in Winnipeg. (For those of you in the Winnipeg area, the show continues tomorrow, April 19th from 10 am until 5 pm. Don’t miss it!) This semi-annual show has been running since 1995 and this year, has about 125 exhibitors, each
I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew Davidson — author of the highly acclaimed debut novel, The Gargoyle, in Toronto in 2009. It was a great pleasure for me to watch Andrew engage the audience at the Access Copyright annual general meeting as I had arranged his participation and it wasn’t easy making the case
I remember the day that I heard on CBC radio that in Churchill, Manitoba, it was -51 Celsius (that’s about -60 Farenheit) with the windchill factored in. It reminded me of all the crazy times I’ve had in Churchill. I even found myself thinking … Hah! -51C is nothing! I’ve been dogsledding in Churchill when
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