Ken Allan at Middle Earth has set the theme for this month’s Green Pen Society blogging. He asked for reflections on, “What gets you flying”? I am not a natural writer. I have experienced failure in writing on numerous occasions. I brought poems in grade ten to my English teacher. He gave a muted, less [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘gps’
July 31, 2009
GPS: Website Gold
Today I ran across an astonishing blog of book reviews, Becky’s Book Reviews. What makes this website gold? Becky read. She reads a whole lot. She reads everything and then she writes about it. I feel I am reading a bunch and I’m reading for work most of the time. [...]
July 22, 2009
Linking Past and Future
I am interested in the way we are tied to the land in which we live. Connection to the land is a precarious part of my cultural history. I am a bi-ethnic mix of English and Mennonite. Mennonites have a history of refugee status. Originally from the lowlands of Netherlands and Northern Germany, once [...]
June 22, 2009
GPS: Quote and Reflect
I really want to do this. I have a wish to be more creative, more interesting. Somewhere inside me I hope there is a writer an inner Robertson Davies or Madeline L’Engle. I know writing takes practice and I believe I can improve so when Paul at QuoteReflections started to invite people [...]
