Discover Kim Echlin’s “Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil” – and join Kim for May Events in Edmonton

The talented and accomplished Kim Echlin is launching her new nonfiction book Tell Others: Storytelling in a World in Turmoil. Kim visits Edmonton for a reading and interview May 5 & 6. โ€œCensorship, testimony, translation, silencing, and listeningโ€”these five words are the beautiful and timely spine of this story. Taking some of the most difficult historical violences of our times as the incitement to read otherwise, Echlin shows the ways in which fiction provides readers a moment of respite. In these pages, the words, language, and stories of others quietly provide us the possibility of community, of refusal, of renewal and of what is possible when we make ourselves available to other accounts of what it means to live a life. We read the writer reading and we share a certain unity through words that produce liberating sensations for collective possibilities beyond despair.โ€ โ€”Rinaldo Walcott, author ofย The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom

A Spanner In the Works

WHEN REPAIRING THE WORLD IS A TOUGH PROPOSITION, BE THANKFUL FOR MINOR DOMESTIC TRIUMPHS -- During COVID (with the help of several Youtube videos), I took apart my broken dishwasher and put the million pieces back together. It lasted several years. Last night I hosted seven women for dinner and after stashing all the dirty… Continue reading A Spanner In the Works

Pandemonium Journal 3/12/22 โ€” the glass bowl

Objects with a history follow your imagination into the past carving out their own stories. Years ago, my mother gifted me a glass bowl. A few months ago while visiting her, she told me once again to take the bowl home with me and I finally shipped it across the prairies from her Ontario farm.

Pandemic Journal 19/8/22 – Some of my favourite things

Sleep Glorious Sleep AKA Temporary Unconsciousness of the COVID-haired Nap Queen With Aged Jowl (the latter autocorrects to โ€œJewelโ€, thank you) Snapshot: Beloved Bumblebee en Famille Still Singing Her Praises With Love Uncle Garryโ€™s Sculpture Garden My Almost First Date With Cute Favourite Home Baker (introducing โ€˜my motherโ€™s spicy muffinsโ€™) Then. With Coco Ming Poodle.… Continue reading Pandemic Journal 19/8/22 – Some of my favourite things

Pandemic Journal 27/6/22 โ€” โ€œCome into my gardenโ€ or Asteya, stealing time

Experience life just as it isโ€ฆ Sweet June. Is she of Summer or of Spring,Of adolescence or of middle-age?A girl first marvelling at touch of loversOr else a woman growing ripely sage?Between the two she delicately hovers,Neither too rakish nor, as yet, mature.She's not a matron yet, not fully sure;Neither too sober nor elaborate;Not come… Continue reading Pandemic Journal 27/6/22 โ€” โ€œCome into my gardenโ€ or Asteya, stealing time