Editorial
A Room Full of Heroes
Posted on September 21, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL All week we've been seconded in a street-facing room in a library in Swift Current in the middle of summer. There are… Read More »
Wild-shaped women
Posted on September 21, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL As the dust settles from a weekend of eclectic theatre and story-rich music, I find the voices in my head still unraveling… Read More »
A hailstone in every fridge
Posted on September 21, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL Sitting around the tables in the Senior's Centre we unburden ourselves of the near-escapes and the shock and awe of a hailstorm… Read More »
These are your stories, too
Posted on July 5, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL I'm headed into the long stretch now. “Mother's Apron”, the cumulative offspring of four years of research, story gathering and editing, takes… Read More »
Hillbillies and Rednecks
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL Awhile back I quoted from a Wallace Stegner book I hunted down that consists of a collection of essays collected by his… Read More »
Silencing the Anthropo Scene
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL The hikers and campers are back, with that stunned look on their faces that says: it's so...BIG and empty....and....quiet, like, REALLY quiet.… Read More »
Mistress of Pentecost
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL Triangles are rarely healthy things when it comes to relationships. But trinities can be powerful forces. The most obvious being the Dad,… Read More »