And then I had a major revelation about oral storytelling and memory while watching an old video of an elder from my home community, and wrote all about it for the Globe and Mail.Īlso for the Globe last fall, I got to interview my friends and mentors Eden Robinson and Cherie Dimaline about the genres our stories inhabit as Indigenous writers. I read and listened to a lot of Anishinaabe stories and history to keep my head in the world I was trying to create. I was invited by Robert Jago to contribute to a series he edited for the Walrus called Terra Cognita, so I wrote a letter to aspiring Indigenous journalists.īy last fall I was deep into developing the sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow. I couldn’t help but reflect on my career and experiences in mainstream Canadian journalism, and what I witnessed over the course of nearly two decades. When I left daily journalism around the same time, the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police prompted widespread discussions about systemic racism in all realms and sectors. It’s hard to believe he’s almost a year and a half already! I chose to write about the impending birth of our son Ayaabe, and they published my reflection a little more than a week before he was born.

Here goes:Īs the pandemic was intensifying in the Spring of 2020, the Toronto Star asked authors to write about how COVID-19 was affecting their lives. So I’ll highlight a few of them here, in hopes of prompting myself to write in this particular blog space a bit more. Now that I’m a full-time author/sometimes freelance journalist, I have the freedom to explore some more personal and introspective kind of writing gigs, which has been fun. But I’ve shared a bit about my recent life events in some fun freelance writings over the past year and a bit. And so much more! I’ll offer up more details on all of those things when I can. I completed the first draft of the sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow.

That has to be a new record since I started blogging a long time ago! A lot has happened since my last post. Whoa! It’s been a year and a half since I’ve posted anything here.

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