Since I started using my new treadmill desk about a month ago I’ve been walking at least one to two hours a day and sometimes more. This past Friday night I walked for about five hours while watching a drummer drum along to requested rock and pop songs to raise funds for his friend’s chemo [...]
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Country Christmas…
Pine trees, their boughs laden with snow, are our Christmas trees. Overwintering birds twittering in branches are our Christmas carolers. Handmade quilts, sweaters and wooden toys are our Christmas gifts. Farm animals nestled in straw in the barn form our nativity scene. One bright star shining in the night is our Christmas star. Heather Leask [...]
You’re not in Kansas anymore with these Manitoba writing contests
The Winnipeg Writers’ Collective has announced its annual non-fiction and poetry contests. The non-fiction contest is just one of the contests (there is a fiction contest later in the year) the Collective hosts annually with the Winnipeg Free Press. This year participants must write a non-fiction story based on the theme, “I knew I wasn’t [...]