https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-19 https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/turtling monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9cf7e516-b0a2-40e9-a57c-d2b9dccb196a/IMG_7678.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out bathroom, before, featuring multi-curtain anti-flashing system: double layer curtain in the window. Plastic shower curtain to protect window, plastic shower curtain on other side of bathtub and then dark fabric shower curtain to complete the anti-flashing system. Hint of dehumidifier in front. Ugly sink and tap not shown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/6f1e0d3f-798a-4c36-a732-9138acc2f06f/20260306_175405.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out Down to the studs and slightly back up again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/08ab850a-d62d-4912-b129-ecdc65186fbf/20260318_164357.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out climbing wall? Or hieroglyphics? Or? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/cdcdcc73-db85-4287-90e0-5d09ec5a9440/20260316_162110.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out pre-tiling, when everything was a vivid orange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/971f7309-7ce5-495d-a51f-010b4ebc623e/20260310_120621+%281%29.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out protest sign given to me by a friend at the third rally earlier this month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/8f2fe251-6fc8-48a8-ab96-aeeba31c5d9e/original_fca0e9c6-b343-4bc3-b4c0-28a63effc005_20260304_122102+%281%29.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out rally signs, Province House, March 2026. Among other things, the budget cuts a 700,000 book publishing grant program. NS will be the only province without this kind of program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9d7a24d3-145d-401e-af4a-325ae8030fc6/original_043730bc-b6a7-4529-a95b-803ca9750ebd_20260304_120346.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out There were many parents at the rally: the cuts affect young people - our future - deeply. Artists in the schools programs, which bring writers, dancers, visual artists and others to schools around the province, have not just seen their funding reduced; the programs have been completely cut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/41e286df-5e57-403d-ba52-1f5448c383f4/20260304_143458%7E2.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out my rally sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1e897131-b0ef-41dc-be6e-e7ef364dd674/original_92365ece-3887-4203-b248-885833b99d05_20260304_122457+%281%29.jpg blog - turtling - Make it stand out When will the arts be a priority? https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/rules monthly 0.5 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/6bdd9cc3-9b04-4e3d-a15c-176c4c255bd1/20260113_090809.jpg blog - rules - Make it stand out a quilty friend gave me suggestions for how to piece a curve, which I suppose technically counts as working with rules, but then I very quickly went off piste and did my own thing. Always wonky. Exactly how I like it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9f8f84f8-d093-4868-b30d-e4490e9306d1/20260226_115922.jpg blog - rules - Make it stand out tools: cutting mat. fabric. ruler (in back corner). kid scissors because I’m not exactly sure where my actual scissors are right now and I didn’t feel like stopping and looking for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2fc9575e-74cf-429a-b761-2cdc9ce5d869/20250710_195106.jpg blog - rules - Make it stand out the very first quilt I made. It makes me happy every time I look at it. Whenever contractors see it on a bed, they assume that it’s ‘the girl’s room’. Maybe because of the riot of colour? But actually, it’s the mine and my husband’s room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/df746ce8-9274-4d96-b0a8-300be72d11bf/20260226_115821.jpg blog - rules - Make it stand out current project. I started off with good ironing intentions, but then I didn’t feel like it anymore. No idea if it will lie flat. I guess I’ll find out? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/7003ebf7-66e4-4f25-8d61-d4f0105bfad6/20260226_115850.jpg blog - rules - Make it stand out The first time I successfully pieced curves, one of my quilt guild friends gave me a sticker to celebrate. Thanks, Andrea! https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/peopling monthly 0.5 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/b00d44d3-e562-4339-b5ed-fbf595dca704/20251215_113159+%281%29.jpg blog - peopling - Make it stand out tracing nineteenth-century handwriting from archival materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/7901f913-21d6-4168-82a0-739bd82a34eb/20250717_215438%7E3.jpg blog - peopling - Make it stand out stitching over a cyanotype photo on fabric. How I often feel in large groups: constrained, hidden, uncomfortable, silent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e688956d-d6ac-4c8d-9a93-64e1e9c2c309/IMG_1762.jpg blog - peopling - Make it stand out peopling on a grand scale: would you believe these are all flue players? This was definitely a most overwhelming week! The little group I hung out with are all just to the left of the centre, sitting near the bottom. I still remember having in depth debates with an American flutist about the nuclear arms race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1bdb3319-9c06-4877-b91f-325f5f536534/20260115_130324%7E2+%282%29.jpg blog - peopling - Make it stand out some of my favourite conversations happen with archival materials (lol). Archival materials transcribed in pencil; conversational interventions in marker… (materials from the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne) https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/getting-messy monthly 0.5 2025-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/932d69b2-71d1-4e9f-92a5-d2b87518e8c1/20251217_100752.jpg blog - getting messy - Make it stand out Current status of one side of my desk. Three excellent books: Chantal Braganza’s Story of Your Mother, Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk (both of which I have to return to the library), Childbirth by Choice Trust’s No Choice: Canadian Women Tell Their Stories of Illegal Abortion. A children’s abcedarium I received as a baby: A is een aapje, which features all white children and adults except for three ‘dark brown’ figures who are all plantation workers preparing coffee bags for the merchant (!), an as-yet-unopened pack of index cards, some cyanotyped fabric, my agenda, and a folder of ‘important stuff’. It’s all important. I promise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/76dbe3c3-d3fa-40a7-affb-3f8deaec78f4/20251217_100811.jpg blog - getting messy - Make it stand out Looking in the space between my laptop and my desktop reveals more treasures: several journals for several projects: writing, stitching, teaching, and board committee notes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/de740107-1b41-4e37-9bac-a4095348b4a2/20251217_100844.jpg blog - getting messy - Make it stand out This particular fabric pile is surprisingly organized. Rust and tea stained fabric, some speciality printed organza that is absolutely gorgeous, but I’m terrified to use, and then a stack of cyanotypes… https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/iterations monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/beaaf787-9fcc-401c-80c6-33ce32fa62fe/IMG_5808.JPG blog - iterations - Make it stand out my brain, vomited onto paper. probably about ten years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e08943a6-6e78-4a86-96ed-5dd13007ba61/IMG_3907.JPG blog - iterations - Make it stand out one of the archives research notebooks for my project about life writing and citizenship in eighteenth-century medical consultation letters. Important note: the marker notes were added only after my time in the archives. Archives = pencils only. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2a87fe88-d2b7-4607-9bf1-a2b6ed96525c/IMG_6020.JPG blog - iterations - Make it stand out I promise this made complete sense when I created it, and it was a very useful thinking tool. At several years’ remove, it baffles me, but that’s ok. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e503c465-0f06-4208-bb8b-7ae4adb722b7/20251009_163554%7E2.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out cutting 460 squares of recycled fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/bb95166f-8893-463a-9fa7-3c14cb97a96d/20251008_172328%7E2.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out arranging and rearranging on my ‘design wall’ (aka flocked plastic tablecloth pinned to a wall) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/142b2040-cd0f-43c2-ad3c-310df60c227b/20251017_172856.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out stacking and labelling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c1d3a774-591e-4330-8c07-bb148f3e7e69/20251018_144105%7E2.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out stitching an oceanscape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/50ce8c3a-f476-4124-a1b7-51597a1074a1/20251106_165436.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out One experiment. discarded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e2af3e37-608f-498c-8969-80c594bf6b7e/20251112_112320%7E3.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out Another experiment. Closer, but still discarded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/a127376d-e40c-4567-b9ed-215b06eb4cb2/20251121_162518.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out Another experiment. Also discarded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9ef0ed2c-79a9-417b-8595-d0db8fac4333/20251130_145518.jpg blog - iterations - Make it stand out a plan! (thanks, Alt Hotel St. John’s. lol) https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/launching monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/97ee0da8-537b-438d-9d9e-9498036add57/20251126_182802%7E2.jpg blog - launching - Make it stand out stacks of (really fat and super juicy) books! The ones in the back almost look like the Confederation Building! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/d87ff30d-29ab-43eb-a418-9dc42d80f509/20251126_190100.jpg blog - launching - Make it stand out The Great Hall, Queen’s College, Memorial University…. waiting for the festivities to begin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1764531877145-5O3B66M4NTDNHCO5S2ED/letter1.jpg blog - launching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1764531877400-J37TI7TX5RLA9VO5D7TP/letter.jpg blog - launching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1764531879950-T86A6JMPXJZMO1TU9RI4/585227161_10162743520404272_8860434117353688852_n.jpg blog - launching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1764531881968-UCHQFCH8O2VDQTJBB2L8/583545267_10162743520174272_5116522875199811081_n.jpg blog - launching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1764531882633-XEV9KDQ0M63GA2S9UDHF/585313285_10162743520179272_8680181265668205000_n.jpg blog - launching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1764531885215-DBM7MQO9RDKG5IIR02VK/heidi.jpg blog - launching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/17a29c69-df22-40e6-a086-55e57dff9129/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+3.34.56%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - launching - Make it stand out The answer? 223! 203 individuals, 10 organizations; 5 schools, 4 churches and the I.O. Lodge! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2f2ea413-0a8f-4e73-aff8-2524428b2eb2/20251126_202917%7E2.jpg blog - launching - Make it stand out Pin the bowtie on Joey! Thanks to Randy Drover at Memorial UP for finding this photo and also, for erasing the bowtie on it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/f654b30a-2446-4eb3-9971-2dd297001d95/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+3.18.10%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - launching - Make it stand out Confederation Bingo was won by a family member of one of our contributors. With thanks to MUN Press for the game prizes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9c9813e3-63fa-4073-b50d-f7861d2d3f44/gemmabernicemorgan.jpg blog - launching - Make it stand out One of our contributors, Gemma Hickey, with venerable Newfoundland author, Bernice Morgan (herself the mother of Jennifer Morgan, another of our contributors). Photo courtesy of Gemma’s Facebook page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ed4cdc94-4387-4ac6-94ae-30f9bbeb5608/angelaandvickiandsonja.jpg blog - launching - Make it stand out From left to right: co-editor Vicki Hallett, contributor Angela Antle, and me - all of us wearing bow ties in honour of Joey Smallwood. Vicki’s and my bow ties courtesy of one of our former students, Jen d’Eon. Photo courtesy of Angela Antle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/0c80ed2c-7fc7-426d-b0cd-61c3430024c7/Screenshot+2025-11-30+at+3.34.08%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - launching - Make it stand out per a receipt enclosed with a letter: 25 cents! https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/generations monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/f0758c96-c5cf-4617-b715-47c23506b9dc/20251108_091432.jpg blog - generations - Make it stand out Hello, St John’s! How I love your colourful energy! (I am less enamoured of your steep, steep hills: everything is uphill, in any direction, and my calves and knees definitely got their workout this weekend) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/fc63bb10-401c-4bc5-bfce-b8028fe40496/20251108_080004.jpg blog - generations - Make it stand out the program for Up She Rises! featuring photos of NL women activists of generations past, and designed by a current student in the gender studies program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/968ecad0-f8d7-4d9e-9b0c-f6203eb0c193/20251109_213025+%282%29.jpg blog - generations - Make it stand out A quote from the St. John’s Daily News, as seen at the Colonial Building, where lawmakers debated women’s suffrage in the early decades of the twentieth century. The Colonial Building is now a provincial historic site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ebdd5e25-5f8d-42bf-8c24-4ce1b371cd46/img_2412.jpg blog - generations - Make it stand out A photo I took at SlutWalk St John’s, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/5cb56fac-441c-40ff-87ef-792cc8855dc8/20251109_144518.jpg blog - generations - Make it stand out The closing panel of Up She Rises included members of the symposium’s organizing committee. From L to R: Vicki Hallett (co-chair), Margo Duley, Julia Stryker, Willeen Keough, Terry Bishop Stirling, and Heidi Coombs (co-chair). https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/books monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/d10ba8de-a88b-49b9-92f3-480a98985eba/20251105_102032.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out This morning, I found the very first peer-reviewed article I ever published (which, according to one reviewer, had a “crashing non sequiter” and wasn’t worth the paper it was written on). 2008! Good times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/684961ed-530b-4206-856c-c727c423f4eb/20251105_113930.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out The copy I bought for my kids; far shinier than the one I borrowed from our small town library when I was a kid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1b1ec41f-2258-4976-ac6b-3500e7336eb1/20251105_110939.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out purchased in Victoria, BC. Maybe at Munro’s? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c0914115-21ea-4d43-933e-c355c3af42ef/20251105_111008.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out Quantz’s instructions for baby flute players, dutifully marked up by yours truly sometimes around 1993. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/df72ef3a-8424-4065-82af-a905ebe0d168/20251105_110928.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/5d28711d-8cc1-41ae-8381-0752d7b9ab5b/20251105_110904.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/a706fbd9-2d07-4c74-8bac-4cc786599c3f/20251105_110915.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out When I posted about this book on my social media, I discovered that a friend had dated Humphreys’ brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c35aae13-6679-43cd-9b43-70a8649d6d0f/20251105_112039%7E2.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out That 1970s cover, though… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ab544b43-b047-4a14-8ad4-c157bd2b1254/20251105_111041.jpg blog - books - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/numbers monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/4e6cba84-af14-4b4e-a070-b75cbf62a81c/Screenshot+2025-10-10+at+10.34.17%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - numbers - Make it stand out Late into final, final revisions - post review and almost ready to send to the printer - of my second book, Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015). Seven separate drafts in four days! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/822b5ddf-7f0e-47f8-b9e7-037604ce4d12/Screenshot+2025-10-10+at+11.09.11%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - numbers - Make it stand out random early snippets, some of which eventually found their way - heavily revised - into my memoir, What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press, 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/8e082da9-645d-4e3a-bd7b-f0af5ca119c0/Screenshot+2025-10-10+at+10.38.48%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - numbers - Make it stand out I spent a lot of time thinking and writing about mud for a while, and honestly, mud is a great place to hang out. I never wrote a whole book, but I’ve written an essay and a few papers. And even for short pieces, less than 3000 words long, the file names proliferate. (don’t ask me why there’s a boarding pass in that folder because I don’t know). All of this writing eventually turned into a short, 2000-word micro-essay that appareed in my 2018 book, co-authored with two students, Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands (Palgrave Pivot). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/f2f87c90-4cb7-412f-8990-e137144218a0/Screenshot+2025-10-10+at+10.45.49%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - numbers - Make it stand out My current project started out in powerpoint (!) because I was playing with form and space and visual elements and that’s much easier in powerpoint. There are 22 drafts there. Then I moved to word, and most recently, I’ve moved to single spacing, which allows me to read and see differently. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/fine-tooth-combing monthly 0.5 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/44f991da-d4e7-4b97-b564-1e7ca75a1fdb/20250917_093831.jpg blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out 500 pages…. and go! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/b983b8f8-6506-4e0c-85f1-52e714a6df67/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+9.09.25%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out a particularly moving excerpt from a letter to J.R. Smallwood. The correspondent writes, “I don’t think you can visualize what Family Allowance mean to some women, even tough you have reached the top via the hard way - last Friday I was in a store, when a woman by my side bought some sugar, milk, butter etc. she offered her Family Allowance cheque as payment and on receiving the change, she just stood there and cried, how she must bless you.” COLL-075, Archives and Special Collections, Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2b01462a-1b94-4525-aa70-a820d41dbe34/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+9.07.25%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out Another excerpt from a letter to Smallwood, this one about religion…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/3e6d1f62-8b2c-4250-b2c6-df7056977094/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+9.08.24%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out We held some public events along the way… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c715f999-0152-4949-980f-b1afe3bb9652/516757298_10162174348324272_6773770441671443226_n.jpg blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out …I even took the department of gender studies Barbies on a field trip to an event at the Colonial Building in Fall 2024… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/77729622-40ec-4840-944b-2b50e38c3644/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+9.08.44%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out …and I wrote an article for the Newfoundland Quarterly… (we were also on the radio) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/eaff80ed-e33b-4393-a792-4a56a7c8eeb2/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+8.38.06%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/55ab26bb-3b3e-4731-b4d8-c34d8313ed85/20250911_162809%7E2+%281%29.jpg blog - fine-tooth-combing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/mbly856bzr7enhp7mqs10vtqhrnsvf monthly 0.5 2025-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/a2b30ccc-22cb-4f6f-87f2-97c824f4534b/20250513_145257+%281%29.jpg blog - blue - Make it stand out looking out from the island of Spinalonga, Crete. Spring 2025. photo: Sonja Boon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ad872ac7-2449-45c4-b02a-76404360cca1/20250518_131347.jpg blog - blue - Make it stand out the view from Ancient Aptera, Crete. Spring 2025. photo: Sonja Boon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/186eb249-9679-480d-b921-a4d64a0e9814/20250520_120926.jpg blog - blue - Make it stand out the Venetian harbour at Chania, Crete. Spring 2025. photo: Sonja Boon https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/playing-with-worlds-a-manifesto monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ffcfea69-d061-4fce-8911-09d5c896d0a9/468174306_10161170820554272_4747142421134776737_n.jpg blog - playing with wor(l)ds: a manifesto - Make it stand out my cabinet of curiosities; or my shelf of delights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/beeb6fd7-e2e9-403c-b39c-ab4bad043e1e/IMG_1780.JPG blog - playing with wor(l)ds: a manifesto - Make it stand out kid birthday party science experiments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/46d4b4f9-61a2-4375-a5a1-e0ce8d413528/IMG_6458.jpg blog - playing with wor(l)ds: a manifesto - Make it stand out a whole lot of flute players from Tulou’s Méthode de flûte, Op. 100. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1744590357496-05FJ8Y5L3UENB59V1Z97/IMG_5515.jpg blog - playing with wor(l)ds: a manifesto - Make it stand out A quiltlet I made in 2024. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/iceberging monthly 0.5 2025-03-20 https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/this-is-47 monthly 0.5 2025-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/0307f4f9-88f7-439b-9966-f708957f1020/IMG_20250120_090809133_HDR.jpg blog - this is -47 - Make it stand out On campus at the University of Manitoba. We’re currently under an extreme cold warning with wind chill temperatures between -40 and -47 and this the view from my door (which was open for about five seconds!) https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/8020ez815js2xnb8kci0r4j7qfo5mw monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/db21af40-a4dd-4b80-beca-4a9d058623ae/IMG_20241206_103624902_HDR.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out mystical https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/eff7ad41-5dac-42fe-9ea7-5514b40c21bb/IMG_20241206_103304253.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out swirlings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2b7a09c0-8dbf-4440-8705-4850599fae66/IMG_20241206_104348242_HDR.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out channels like train tracks leading right into the sea [on a technical note, my phone camera couldn’t make sense of the mists and the red Fundy mud and kept trying to tell me it was sunset] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c3b9e6bb-3866-463c-9701-f3518224c7c5/IMG_20241206_103425896_HDR.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out the rocky skeleton of a mythical sea creature? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/fb609d33-7be4-49a5-ac8c-bd98158ba2f0/IMG_20241206_103655771.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out waves etched into stone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9a499404-3571-4509-b1c3-ad308da394dc/IMG_20241206_103140739.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out lunar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/0dfbfc35-1685-49ff-b5a8-f147a3d55729/IMG_20241206_103521961.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out scarred https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/16aa7ee7-f484-4a59-b038-9fd9f7ab6544/IMG_20241206_103055866.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out valleys and plateaus - the Grand Canyon in miniature https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/afa6e6c8-7df0-4480-815f-d2009f414506/IMG_20241206_103228391.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out marbled https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/4bfaae88-8aa1-4d64-9d6b-d082796054f5/IMG_20241206_102322339.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out sinews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/eb7d1637-b3fd-41e2-a128-2297d892fa60/IMG_20241206_103513706.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out layers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/fdf67415-d2c7-4c09-bfc6-1d2c0f0028d0/IMG_20241206_110616398_HDR.jpg blog - beached - Make it stand out in other news, it was chilly out this morning! https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/a-quilt-as-deep-as-time monthly 0.5 2024-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ddc452be-7e16-410f-aead-c49252019297/IMG_20241201_153730677.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out looking under the surface. Penny Beach, NS. December 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/61c99890-7fc4-44d6-99b0-066322b05aeb/Screenshot+2024-12-03+at+4.39.07%E2%80%AFPM.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out The view from my writing desk. Could a girl ask for more? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/f61bfe6f-256c-473d-8924-c2093133ca9b/IMG_20241203_112254348.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/56b0e16f-6ed6-42b0-aae4-4581104885d1/original_dfc65b55-5e34-49f9-a762-e62ee2fce6a2_IMG_20241203_074710449.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e0062f11-c173-424f-acd0-aeaab3f6d687/IMG_20241201_152954670.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out layers and layers and layers. I counted 46 on this rock, but there were definitely more than that…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1023881d-03fd-4984-8ab4-f36f56650953/IMG_20241202_095708088.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out Blue Beach, NS. December 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9a4754db-604a-42f5-a15a-6d9c2709a6c8/IMG_20241202_093913937_HDR.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out some kind of fossil that I’d likely have been able to identify if the museum had been open. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/aa36a4e1-fc0f-403f-8b86-033f2525c703/IMG_20241202_094426152_HDR.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out More fossily hints, with other stones artfully arranged into the face of a chow. or a panda. or? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/b2e0060a-3197-4229-8ef2-c8ca4ccf081d/IMG_20241202_095812496.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out shale shards (with my decidedly inelegant foot - shoe size 10.5 - for scale) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/36bfd335-d299-440d-a695-2bb77617a5f2/IMG_20241202_111256842.jpg blog - a quilt as deep as time - Make it stand out shale quilt https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/writing-fragments monthly 0.5 2024-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2f07eb77-de7d-4d4c-9169-2412e88a293e/IMG_20241125_095807088.jpg blog - writing fragments - Make it stand out sticker from Firefly Creative Writing’s Hello Writer program (sadly ended) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/bf52893f-114c-41cb-bce1-76876f049ae3/IMG_3770.JPG blog - writing fragments - Make it stand out wax seal on a letter sent to Samuel Auguste Tissot, an eighteenth-century celebrity doctor based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne is home to some 1300 letters written to Tissot during the second half of the eighteenth century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ecd09563-0aeb-4bb8-aa24-5464afb57352/IMG_1417.JPG blog - writing fragments - Make it stand out a gathering of sea urchin shells, somewhere near Heart’s Delight, Newfoundland and Labrador, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e9096009-8eb3-4168-81ee-2547975d1b7d/Screenshot+2024-11-25+at+8.01.41%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - writing fragments - Make it stand out seen along my wanderings… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/d8b478f9-b6a5-4a85-ba2f-d0589f237e3b/IMG_7725+%281%29.jpg blog - writing fragments - Make it stand out Sandy beach, Point au Gaul, Newfoundland and Labrador, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/f4356218-852c-4c4f-bf82-fd1f0be878d6/IMG_5005.jpg blog - writing fragments - Make it stand out neighbourhood collage: pops of colour and a tiny fairy-painted stone. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/proactive monthly 0.5 2024-11-15 https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/retreat-ing monthly 0.5 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9d0e4e5c-5159-44e4-a5ea-ea15f763a247/E0DE393D-44D4-42E0-A46E-BD1A16E5D5BE.jpg blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out my fabric printing cottage industry in high gear in the weeks before the retreat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2ce2a23b-b643-4960-b7bd-387cbe58d91b/IMG_20241026_204607204.jpg blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out One of my projects only needed binding, so I was able to get that one finished on the second day of the retreat. This is part of my “quilting colonialism” project. I gel-printed all the fabric with goutweed and doilies and I modified a traditional medallion quilt to have the medallion slide almost off the quilt entirely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/0784a423-3d37-4617-a762-d1aa20a68e3d/IMG_20241025_112745593.jpg blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out Truro delight: the sound and feel of leaves crunching under my feet and blowing around my ankles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/42abe651-fce7-4eec-91b9-8c4e88186fbe/IMG_20241025_112905085_HDR.jpg blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out Truro Public Library - bright and spacious with high high ceilings. What a great place to spend a couple of hours! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9bf12676-7e0f-4fb5-b2a1-161ff79316e8/IMG_20241026_082353623.jpg blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out messenger tote bag made from an old IKEA couch throw that we bought about 20 years ago, and lined with IKEA pre-cut fabric I bought in August 2024. A great learning activity (I know how I’d revise my process for next time) and I now have a new book bag! Pattern here: https://www.diaryofaquilter.com/easy-mod-messenger-bag-tutorial/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/d13130de-23dd-4df6-a518-b595ff354e86/IMG_6482.PNG blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out Weekend solo writing retreat in our department seminar room in 2017 when I was putting together my memoir, What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home. I had all my favourite tools with me: paper, scisors, markers, tape, notebooks, sticky notes… and space space space! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/6b641bf6-12f0-43af-b9ba-6898d87389aa/IMG_6481.jpg blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out How I generally manage social situations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/685c6793-673e-497c-bdd6-d838e519381f/IMG_20241026_115041705.jpg blog - retreat-ing - Make it stand out lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of 3-inch half square triangles to trim… (these ones made from linen and cotton table runners and hand-printed goutweed recycled cotton sheets) https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/on-calico-and-cholera monthly 0.5 2024-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/b5862eac-2439-49a3-a7a8-e51f40884412/1024px-Textile blog - on calico and …. cholera? - Make it stand out Textiles: a pair of large presses for block printing calico. Engraving by J. Carter after T. Allom, 1834. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/4185ef47-d9a9-4277-9e3c-45e519613f02/1024px-Remedies_for_cholera%2C_1832_Wellcome_L0000612.jpg blog - on calico and …. cholera? - Make it stand out Remedies for Cholera, 1832. Wellcome Images. CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/migrations monthly 0.5 2024-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9d9a5252-89b7-4469-84be-894839937a62/IMG_20220430_140603756.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Pier 21 Museum of Immigration, Halifax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/85d68830-475a-4c3a-a222-af699d8732a6/IMG_3945.JPG blog - migrations - Make it stand out Suitcases and trunks at Pier 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/a8eb8590-5e58-4da2-8683-3f9951b233dc/IMG_3949+%281%29.JPG blog - migrations - Make it stand out so many stories shared by museum visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/03a381d8-78d7-4107-b8ef-855fd5f60754/IMG_20240915_140530891.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/69b9f5d8-5f05-421e-9d9e-9731d386f7a3/IMG_20230319_132837596.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/620fede6-8644-42df-8595-117895f30965/IMG_20240915_140350670.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/4337dcc8-2c36-402f-9419-35eb166bc1fc/IMG_20240915_140222426.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e2d2c26f-af87-4080-a9f4-7f95a7d4089a/IMG_20230319_132657321+%281%29.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/b62eee8b-53d6-47dd-8f32-bc1d07ef8502/IMG_20240915_140756515.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/f3d1969b-7d47-4d61-b8f2-e00a24f868af/IMG_20230319_132523800.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/9ac1f0ab-2ec0-4125-b40c-15b35b3dd460/IMG_20230319_132356122.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/fda72e44-2ef6-4824-b1c9-dca2d9cb27d9/IMG_20240915_140141488.jpg blog - migrations - Make it stand out With deepest thanks to all those who have shared - and continue to share - their migration stories. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/fly monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/96c7d807-06a0-42de-882e-433138f5e064/IMG_20240831_132104729.jpg blog - fly - Make it stand out Cobblers Path, where the fearless can walk almost down to the end of that point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/bfa51c15-249a-46fd-b1d6-807da34d534c/IMG_5219+%281%29.JPG blog - fly - Make it stand out A absolutely stunning cathedral iceberg grounded near Cape Spear. This view from the Blackhead to Cape Spear part of the East Coast Trail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/d6291bbb-48dc-400b-a8e6-026370d83d76/IMG_20210522_101444667_HDR.jpg blog - fly - Make it stand out Deadman's Bay. A very lumpy and bumpy and rocky wooded trail leads to a quiet oasis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/7dd10c91-8444-4dfd-bbdd-42514bd6a20b/IMG_8226.jpg blog - fly - Make it stand out Cape Spear to Maddox Cove. This trail has the absolute best views over the Atlantic. Big and bold and wide, wide open. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/86e45b92-523c-4f5f-888c-8e32660ad8a6/IMG_3274.jpg blog - fly - Make it stand out by Flatrock, NL. One of my favourites. One year, we saw over twenty icebergs from this trail on a single afternoon. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/float-1 monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/8fdc40f6-22e5-4414-9564-7910d8b452c5/Screenshot+2024-08-25+at+9.17.26%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - float - Make it stand out a bronze-cast floaty goose, part of a series called "Float" by Brandon Vickerd, 2023. Photographed at Halifax Common Pool, August 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/22f01234-4df2-418f-96c1-a2dc22b76ee1/Screenshot+2024-08-25+at+9.16.55%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - float - Make it stand out Another floaty creature by Brandon Vickerd. Halifax Common Pool, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1dac264e-dca0-4468-a239-54020421c0cc/Screenshot+2024-08-25+at+9.17.33%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - float - Make it stand out more floaties, by Brandon Vickerd... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/47b17bf5-f461-4b7b-a96e-d4cabc260c2a/Screenshot+2024-08-25+at+9.17.16%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - float - Make it stand out Halifax Common Pool outdoor water park area. Usually filled with happily shrieking littles, but I don't want to take photos of people's kids and post them randomly online on my blog, so I waited for a quiet moment. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/what-lies-beneath monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/6015766b-cbfa-4bba-b70a-f39ab3e7f74d/Screenshot+2024-08-21+at+9.58.52%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - what lies beneath - Make it stand out Digger. When my kids were young, they would have been entranced, and would have spent the entire day outside watching the goings on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/15bffe51-6414-4c59-925c-bb7900a2f37a/Evening_dress_MET_1974.194.5_d.jpg blog - what lies beneath - Make it stand out Not the dress I've been looking at. But similar era. Evening dress, British, 1840-45. Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/float monthly 0.5 2024-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/50b11676-a400-4499-beb9-bdcd7f51e370/IMG_20220527_154833246_Original.jpg blog - float - Make it stand out ducklings delighting in water delighting in ducklings. Kent’s Pond, St. John’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/1bcd3122-29b4-4acd-af5d-e991f188a36e/original_ceffa4ab-3bae-429b-b8b5-e3f27398e3cc_IMG_20240614_165744656.jpg blog - float - Make it stand out jellyfish. Melmerby Beach, NS, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/0655783c-b589-4028-b4a1-1df813b3f95c/IMG_6244.jpg blog - float - Make it stand out Musicamrose final concert program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/55475adc-a0c8-48a2-91fc-fee83fea2cbc/IMG_4642+%281%29.JPG blog - float - Make it stand out somewhere in Newfoundland (where the ocean is cold and only the hardiest go out for a swim in anything less than a wetsuit) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/a31f4b30-0620-4cc8-9e6b-ecd96c1c29b6/IMG_6343.jpg blog - float - Make it stand out kid the elder’s leg, kid the younger’s splash-sprayed back, and in the middle, the elusive author, bobbing uncomfortably in the ocean somewhere near Barcelona, 2019. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/gothic-romance monthly 0.5 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2940b388-e1ab-4dc1-b18d-70cb62a7c563/Screenshot+2024-07-23+at+4.08.40%E2%80%AFPM.jpg blog - gothic romance - Make it stand out ghostly shadow rails on the way upstairs… https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/says-she-was-born-free monthly 0.5 2024-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/fda5a60d-14f5-4082-9fe3-d1e1614fb34a/Screenshot+2024-07-24+at+4.46.43%E2%80%AFPM.jpg blog - “Says She Was Born Free” - Make it stand out Looking out over the water from Birchtown, NS. 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/95c82648-061f-4e18-b953-39ecc9487910/IMG_1912.jpg blog - “Says She Was Born Free” - Make it stand out Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, Birchtown, NS, 2017. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/and-then-or-rabbit-holing monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/63 monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/19649cea-82c9-41a5-b403-669b0ffb8657/Screenshot+2024-07-15+at+2.38.18%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - 63 - Make it stand out Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia. Dusk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/7bc40b5f-39b7-4ab2-b9d8-42cd5f7926cd/Screenshot+2024-07-15+at+2.41.18%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - 63 - Make it stand out Crystal Crescent Beach, Nova Scotia. https://www.storiedselves.ca/blog/beginnings monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c48470f7-9495-4969-9dc7-c02277a88f8c/Screenshot+2024-07-15+at+11.54.24%E2%80%AFAM.png blog - beginnings - Make it stand out brainstorming a poem crafted from words pulled from three different historical sources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/8ff53823-9e49-4845-a4a4-b129499f266c/Screenshot+2024-07-15+at+12.07.15%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - beginnings - Make it stand out the first quilt I ever made, ca. 2015. Stitched with African, Indonesian, Javanese, and Maroon fabrics purchased in Suriname, and representing the colourful heritage I inherited from my mother’s side of the family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/3c11ffa8-7967-498d-9809-caa8ad47c356/Screenshot+2024-07-15+at+12.14.04%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - beginnings - Make it stand out St. John’s fog, December 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/cccab8a6-fb87-4ab3-82e6-561810bbde79/Screenshot+2024-07-05+at+12.57.46%E2%80%AFPM.png blog - beginnings - Make it stand out thinking about empire and experimenting with monoprinting = printing goutweed. https://www.storiedselves.ca/about daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/3ff0551e-4a4d-480a-9c38-cc23e5c2dbf7/71iUK%2BHcTGL._SY522_.jpg about Dear Mr. Smallwood: Confederation in the words of those who know it. Memorial University Press, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/878b8556-e678-44cd-95d0-01a7b02b9830/booncover.webp about fair wind: as ships. poetry chapbook. pinhole poetry, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/78fc1450-187d-464b-af79-94ad0e8b25b9/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+3.36.36%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Soft Ooze"; or, Here Be Danger; guest blog post for the Allard Pierson, Amsterdam, June 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/a363e5e9-1966-44e5-8c3d-515a3b295371/Screenshot+2025-04-05+at+7.58.58%E2%80%AFAM.png about "Thinking with the Ocean: Twelve questions and a meditation to accompany the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade." (guest blog post), Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba, March 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/0c5fa2ae-28ea-4b5a-b49f-a5e74f4cb0dd/Screenshot+2025-04-05+at+7.55.36%E2%80%AFAM.png about "This Linen Harbour," (poetry), The Dalhousie Review, 104.1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c224852f-358d-4124-95c3-fccb2abcb79b/Screenshot+2025-04-05+at+7.53.49%E2%80%AFAM.png about "Writing in a Collective Voice: The political power of pseudonyms in women's letters to Smallwood," (essay) Newfoundland Quarterly, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/469e40c4-3cb6-4b6a-99c7-b32967b21067/Screenshot+2024-11-26+at+7.54.29%E2%80%AFAM.png about "on oceans as archives as oceans," daze jefferies: stay here stay how stay exhibition catalogue, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/e8fb2f50-334f-487d-ae12-1c1f604a6488/Screenshot+2024-08-22+at+1.49.48%E2%80%AFPM.png about "forgettings," in Janus Unbound, vol. 3, no. 2. 2024. (poetry) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/d795b78d-f9fd-413d-9353-b234dee19d4d/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.09.13%E2%80%AFPM.png about "salt the page" UNLOST journal, 2024 (poetry) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ed3f926e-486f-4d98-a5cc-fc37c43ba5d0/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.10.29%E2%80%AFPM.png about "possible ground" and "hold my wake" Pinhole Poetry, 2024 (poetry) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/8e098200-40e6-430b-9236-057996b1445e/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.12.24%E2%80%AFPM.png about the patchwork poems, DarkWinterLit, 2024 (poetry) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/284d9a3a-9699-49fe-bf76-094bf2babf06/routledge.jpg about The Routledge Introduction to Auto/Biography in Canada, 2023 (scholarly) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/d274d0ee-4b2f-4915-a586-f3b59104e2f8/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.14.25%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Deep River" Syncopation journal, 2022 (short fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/8eb23c9c-d577-4096-9384-5c470e640420/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+2.55.04%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Plucked Chicken" Room, 43.1, 2021 (creative non-fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/4637b706-4080-4d1d-b65b-7b8863be123b/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+2.52.11%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Stopping the Hearse" Riddle Fence, Issue 40, 2021 (creative non-fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/5b15995a-5bd9-400f-9c80-3cbc192316d2/BIG.jpg about “Fifty Shades of Black Fat: An Inventory” , in BIG: Stories about life in plus-sized bodies, 2020 (creative non-fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/2285377e-29e7-4618-b469-cb31b0698e53/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.07.25%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Body Lessons" in Body Stories: In and out and with and through fat, 2020 (creative non-fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/7ede6341-ed9a-4dec-8b9d-cd74035a6c9b/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.16.02%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Telling Stories with Gold" in Re-Imagining the Guyanas, 2020 (creative non-fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/aab123dc-dcc6-42ea-afd1-6860262ed799/9781771125536_cover_rb_modalcover.jpg about What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home, 2019 (memoir) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/ff35d8dc-3384-41a5-b6de-e82a2da70962/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.17.28%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Dusting for Fingerprints" Life Writing journal, 2018 (autoethnography) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/c0815de2-37b9-46b6-bd23-088a83476b2a/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.22.33%E2%80%AFPM.png about Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge: Unsettled Islands, 2018 (scholarly) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/011bf6ca-8416-4d3f-b072-c8cf6e55cb91/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.19.24%E2%80%AFPM.png about "God's Will" Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 2018 (creative non-fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/b7b54b52-41f9-433f-952a-a4ce0f356224/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.06.26%E2%80%AFPM.png about "Thirteen Litres," Geist 101, 2016 (creative non-fiction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/655cda8a251dad49c6543037/196e2473-17b2-488f-9ecb-22f6a4f8a47b/Screenshot+2024-04-01+at+5.05.11%E2%80%AFPM.png about "But where are you really from?" 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