I spent last Thursday and Friday in Calgary at the Alberta Farm Writers Association conference. First off, I have to congratulate myself for my success in driving around Calgary. I still don't know the city that well, and in my mind, it is a big mess of urban sprawl. But I was able to drive around and only got lost once ( Read more... )

So I arrived last night at about 6. My day started pretty early because I had to drop Fergus off at Mari's. This was a bit like dropping a child off at daycare, and she pretty much had to assure me that he would be fine. Then I did a few more things before going to catch my sky shuttle. My sky shuttle journey was probably the most eventful part of ( Read more... )

I've been feeling a little overwhelmed and here's why ( Read more... )

I'm in Stettler and for once, I have an INSANE hotel room. This hotel is the newest in Stettler and many people have been curious about it. I'm staying in a suite, with two televisions, a fireplace, a fridge and a king size bed with 6 pillows on it. It's crazy.

On Wednesday, I drove up to Grande Prairie. It was a bit of a shock to my system as there was almost 20 degrees of temperature difference between the two cities. It was definitely winter in GP, and so I spent a lot of time freezing and being very cold. Friends kept on asking me what was wrong. I was staying with family friends when I got there. Jon ( Read more... )

I have neglected to post about my great trip to BC. I took the sky shuttle to the Edmonton airport. Strangely, three Edmonton Eskimos were on my bus ride. You'd think that professional football players would have their own bus, but these ones didn't. They were nice, but the whole thing was very strange ( Read more... )

August has been great. It just whizzed by and was full of lots of fun stuff. September should be good too. I've got a week of doing very little, followed by a week of complete buzyness. I'm looking forward to September for some of the fun stuff it brings; book launches, poetry readings, fall festivals etc. The first week in September will be spent ( Read more... )

Was great, but damn exhausting. I spent one day driving out to High Prairie, to visit an apiary. Rachel and I were surrounded by bees as I conducted the interview. She married into the family and has decided to expand and change the family business by creating honey related body care products for sale. I have some of her lavender honey balm and it' ( Read more... )

I've got lots of things planned ( Read more... )

I got back yesterday and have STUPID amounts of work to do today. I spent the day doing my taxes and am going to meet with my accountant on Friday. I also found out that I have to go out of town on Thursday. Well, I don't REALLY have to, but it will result in less work in the long run, so I'm going to do it ( Read more... )