prairiemary

  The childhood books of both my parents were still around in my own childhood and I was gifted with those stories about girls who are so pl...

  Because my aging is alongside this pandemic, I’m having to rethink some strategies.   For instance, I had not thought in terms of a long p...

When seen from the air at night the border between the US and Canada just north of where I am is very clear, as clear as the border between ...

These photos were meant to be on yesterday's post, but the action wouldn't work on Blogger.  Today it does, so I'll post them he...

  Working on these materials I keep running into problems that send me scurrying to find more facts and thoughts and there are always a LOT ...

In Saskatoon I used to have an on-going argument with a geologist about whether a person would be different from one place to another becaus...

  It’s so awkward for me, a white woman (napi yahkee), to comment on someone like Jesse DesRosier and you shouldn’t continue reading what I ...

  Narrativity is a fancy way to say “telling a story” but Richard Stern’s classes at the U of Chicago expanded that in his teaching antholo...

Twenty years ago when I moved in, I did cats the respectable way.   I was hired to teach, so I acquired two kittens, got their shots and spa...