reflections from your living room

wednesday morning. christina is sleeping in but i woke up with the sound of prairie wind dancing around this house, shaking the treetops, waving the  gold grasses of last year. we're in Onanole on the southern edge of Riding Mountain Park. our lovely hostess – which we kept up long past her bedtime last night, chatting – has gone to work, and left us to rest and relax in her home: porridge on the stove, note on the…  Read More »

Lillian's Tea in Crystal City, Manitoba

oops, a bug. an ant perhaps.

ok then, here's a photo:

the Crew at Lillian's for afternoon tea and homemade biscuits

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manitoba routes

i've been meaning to get here all week and write up a storm of all the things we've been up to: driving to penticton, calgary, the farm in eston, saskatoon, april snowstorms, manitoba. oh so much of manitoba!

christina an i have been doing house concerts in manitoba all week. a few in winnipeg, but mostly in rural areas south of the #1, and south of portage la prairie. the shows have been wonderful, the audiences have been gracious and lovely, and our hosts have been fabulous. what a great journey. one of the woman from our…  Read More »

yoga and creative process

Last weekend I had the great fortune of participating in a weekend long yoga workshop. It's the first chance that I have spent several days in a row just focused on practice. It was exactly what I needed but didn't know I needed. When i managed to get my brain and body to sit down together, I realised how much I'd had on my mind of late and I realized that stepping…  Read More »

an introduction

i've wanted to do this for a while, but for one reason or another it hasnt worked out. at least not yet.  i've wanted to keep a little online journal of my travels and such: road stories, veggie oil truck details, superb meals in random canadian towns, little notes about creative things i am working one, etc... but alas i am a fantastic procrastinator and i avoided the possible means at my disposal. so finally, with this new site i have the opportunity to add my voice to the stories collecting in this expanding web. 

i want…  Read More »