Category Archives: home

Enter Comfort

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

It’s a weird world right now, talking to a neighbour with the road between us, spending time on Zoom to be with family and yet there are still joys, if strange ones … ENTER COMFORT we close windows still the … Continue reading →

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Music in the House

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

We’re all caught in the silences of living, with birds caroling outside and music (or TV if that’s your thing) of one sort or another inside … MUSIC IN THE HOUSE sounds drop until the house is littered                  with broken … Continue reading →

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Grey Paper

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

Bees are good, flies not so much, nor mosquitoes, nor the rest of the family of flying critters (good for spiders and birds, not for humans), never mind aphids and the other plant-eating parasites … GREY PAPER the wasps of … Continue reading →

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Deserted House

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

There are so many old houses, particularly on the prairies. They have stories in them, questions about who lived there, how their lives were governed by the landscape. Did they move out? what made them change their way of living, … Continue reading →

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Where Home Is

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

Everyone’s home is different, the map-reading a separate event, each series of directions special to who we are, what we do, where we live. Difficult to describe but everyone knows where their own home is … A WHERE HOME IS … Continue reading →

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