Wayfinding
Navigating this story.
Welcome to Shiny!
Welcome to Shiny! This is the text of the introductory email sent out to participants in the Shiny! speculative writing group. The email is a digital version of the launch party we hosted in Calgary on January 26, 2020. (This email will also be sent out to new...
Shiny! speculative writing launch party
Have you missed the in-person writing workshops that used to run regularly through Writing in the Margins? Me too! Introducing Shiny! a speculative writing group. We're having a launch party on January 26, from 4-6 pm, at Loft 112 in the East Village here in Calgary....
David Maxwell Memorial Reading Challenge
David Maxwell Memorial Reading Challenge Created by Tiffany Sostar In joyful memory of their dad, David Maxwell: lover, collector, and sharer of books January 12, 1953 – November 30, 2019 Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to...
Light and the Long Night
(An earlier draft of this post was available to Patreon supporters.) cw: death Yesterday was the Winter Solstice, and it was also three weeks since my dad died. It was a hard day. It has been a hard three weeks. It was a hard stretch before that. It has been a...
Trajectories
(content note: death, dying) The photo is of my hand in my dad's hand. I took it on Thursday, as I sat with him. Holding hands will always remind me of what he taught me - three squeezes for "I love you," four squeezes for "I love you, too." I will write this up in...
Great Unexpectations: A Possibilities Calgary event
I'm putting some of the material I've been generating for An Unexpected Light to work in other spaces. I'm proud of this, because one expectation I often apply to myself is that everything must be fresh and new, that it will have less value if it is something I...