August 2019: Back to School!
Photo by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash I’m going back to University! I never thought I'd get the opportunity to follow my passion and go to school for writing at thirty. I assumed I…
Photo by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash I’m going back to University! I never thought I'd get the opportunity to follow my passion and go to school for writing at thirty. I assumed I…
I’d like to share some details of a project I keep coming back to. In February of 2018, I was struggling to write a piece about what borders and boundaries…
It finally feels like summer might come to Northwestern Ontario and I couldn’t be more ready. My spirits rise and fall with the seasons and I’m coming into my happiest…
A woman I know saw this image on facebook and brought it to my attention: My first thought was, obviously, that the man who posted it is disgusting. Then we…
Borders and Boundaries By: E.B. Page Photo by Aditya Saxena on Unsplash What are borders and boundaries to me? They’re the realities of being a woman. Each stage of life has brought me…
We were halfway through our meal when it happened. An obnoxious older couple sitting between us and the young family began discussing, loudly, how the baby was ruining their meal.
My son is in grade three this year, and we've been given a wonderful gift by his teacher, independent home reading...
I’ve committed to making no new year's resolutions and remain buried in my writing until the winter has passed. I’m trying to be kinder to myself this year, and not set myself up in a negative way with a slew of personal expectations. I’m in stay-home-and-write mode indefinitely. At least until the world starts to thaw a little.
Christmas is going to be at my house this year and although I’m almost thirty years old, it’s the first time having real house guests. Five house guests to be exact. A Christmas Eve dinner for twenty, and Christmas Day dinner for nine.
I spent a weekend at my first writing retreat in Falcon Lake this month: Wild Writing In The Boreal. There were many jokes about wild women writing, but it was pretty wild if I’m being honest. A large part of this was likely due to the fact that, by chance, the group turned out to be made up entirely of women.