Oh! One more thing before I go...
Emma Alvarez Gibson has a delicious blog that I like to visit called OLD SOUL INK. A few weeks back, she interviewed me and it's UP NOW.

We have finally crossed over to spring here. I feel euphoric at thinking that we have a long, warm spring and summer stretched out before us.

I went running all winter this year. It saves my sanity, I'm learning, but winter running is NOTHING like a good, long run in warm spring sunshine with all the buds barely out. Everything seems extra bright and alive, the water extra sparkly, the air extra fragrant.

I am headed off alone for a whole week today. How can this be? I got a bursary to attend a 4 day poetry workshop with my favorite poet Lorna Crozier, and after that I will be heading to a forest monastery for 2 nights to be completely and utterly SILENT and take long walks among birch trees.

Iryn was teary and falling apart this morning as I exhorted her to water my seedlings, which are now lining the windowsills and which I am hoping (against hope?) will still be alive when I get home.