Open to the irritation, grit forms a pearl it’s been said. Fish for mermaids, dive for pearls . . creativity@maryannmoore.ca

A Poet’s Nanaimo

Notebooks to Remember and to Let Go

I wonder if anyone reads this blog? (I think people do, they just don't always leave comments!) A blog is like a notebook or journal but in a public form unlike the many notebooks I’ve kept through the years that no one else sees. The writing is different here as...

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The Circle is Open

“Nothing’s changed. Everything is different,” said Linda, Sarah’s hair stylist when she came to cut Sarah’s hair in our courtyard garden one day when the weather was milder. She meant things continued to be different and in that way nothing had changed. (Or it could...

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2020 In Review – Books

When I saw on Facebook that my poet, writer and writing mentor friend Susan Olding keeps a running list of books she’s read, I figured I could admit that I do the same. She categorized her 2020 reading list and has been posting the lists separately.  Thank you for the...

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My blogs are about upcoming writing circles, books I’ve appreciated, and other aspects of a creative writing life.