Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "stories"
portrait of a landscape
Dear Diary, Years ago, I have no idea how many, but maybe nine or ten, maybe even more, a slight, pale pretty red headed girl knocked meekly on my studio door when it was still in the back room of my house. She came in and asked if maybe I had a job that she could have in the summer. It never occurred to me that I had a job for her, but after she … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diary, Guest Writers
“letting your spirit soar” or “chance encounters, sorting yourself out, and getting on with it”
Dear Diary, Some things change your life. They are usually big huge things, big deep experiences or are they ? Sometimes the things that change your life are silly little things. Sometimes they are chance encounters, sometimes they are the little risks that you take, sometimes they just flow, one thing to another, and you flow with them. For example the time I saw Harry Moore, before he was Harry the Printer, on the street outside my window … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diary, Small Town Life
Diane Krys: My Visit With Emily
The cabin deck stuck out like a big tongue reaching to feel and taste the woods. It was built into a stand of towering pines; the kind that spend their whole life fighting for their place in the sun. Lanky trunks were ladders of withered limbs. The final rungs seemed to hoist a small triangle of jubilant greenery up to kiss the sun. How different an aerial view would look. Green canopies in close proximity … Read entire article »
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Diane Krys: Hello Again
Dear Readers, I’m pleased to let you know I will now be posting on the 10th of each month. Although Deanne gave me a warm introduction earlier this year, this change seemed to warrant a few more words to acquaint myself. I make my home in Edmonton, Alberta with my husband and a pooch named Baboo. I was born in Nova Scotia and transplanted to Alberta when my family moved west in the 1970′s. My family tree … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Guest Writers
tea and me…once we did part company
Dear Diary, Last Saturday I decided to take myself off caffeine with the exception of tiny bits of chocolate now and then. I can’t tell you why I did this, not because it is a secret, but because I have no idea why. I went out and bought decaf tea for my 3 to 6 cup a day habit and I quit. I felt quite something until Tuesday when the headache started and I googled quitting … Read entire article »
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the balance between memory and melancoly
Dear Diary, Sometimes the feeling of home is all you need. I have a little wall of memories, a medal of St. Christopher a friend gave me when we were 14, a few pictures of my parents when they were young, another taken in their prime, a duck carved by my father when I was a girl, an inexpensive celtic ruin from a cathedral in Galway. These things have hung for a few years in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Diary
Mary Logue, rug hooker and poet answers ten lovely questions
About five years ago Mary came to a big Rug Hooking Workshop that I hosted here ion Amherst. Since then I have read her books and kept up on her work. I am happy that she has agreed to participate in ten lovely questions….here’s Mary…. 1) What do you find lovely? Most natural objects, the sky, the river. Trees are really knocking me out lately. In the winter you can see their odd and beautiful … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Diary
not a loser’s weeper’s, finder’s keepers kind of place
Dear Diary, Our local rink has a great walking track. On stormy winter days you can go there and walk five miles if the sidewalks are not cleared or are too slippery. I love it. I have to be careful sometimes not to knock over someone as I do my fast laps it is so busy. I remind myself it isn’t a bowling alley. I think it is one of the best changes town council has made … Read entire article »
Filed under: Small Town Life
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