The last couple of months have been bittersweet. My 2010 ended with the sad, sudden death of a dear artist friend. Around the same time, an injury to my dominant (painting+ writing) hand, followed by four weeks of a tenacious flu, forced me to endure a frustrating period of creative dormancy — but also allowed […]
Spatherdab
Get your lust on
This ain’t no namby-pamby cinnamon hearts & chocolate flowers couples fest. This is Gypsy Valentine, an afternoon of smokin’ hot verse and bohemian music at Leva Cafe on Sunday, Feb. 13. Edmonton poets Mandie Lopatka, Kelly Shepherd and Amy Willans and I will start the fire, accompanied by the smouldering violin of Karen Donaldson Shepherd […]
Never out of style
‘The white shirt is now an omnipresent part of the fashion scene, a wardrobe staple of the world’s most stylish women.’ Not to mention the world’s most stylish sax players… I’ll be reading from White Shirt on Saturday, Dec. 4 as part of the ‘Book Lover’s Christmas Sale’ at Stanley Milner Library (Centennial Room, lower […]
webspametry
you wrote that you looking moped rental and chicago here you have all what I found: put down your brush comet holds the secret to life after he cheats cup of tea the answer why women really love wearing shoes tori spelling’s dress: sad, limp and purple how long does meat keep in your fridge? […]
5 minutes avec chemise blanche
on the nightstand: outliers by malcolm gladwell; left hook by george bowering on the iPod: david gray; emmylou harris; the supremes; abba; kd lang; the fugitives; justin rutledge; kate rusby; laura love; rufus wainwright what white shirt had for breakfast: egg, potato, spinach & red bean burrito; two coffees with homo milk SAY WORD / […]
poetry immersion 101
it’s national poetry month — and what a month it is! on april 3, i had the pleasure of sharing the stage with michelle boudreau, mary pinkoski and jasmine whenham at a music & poetry shindig at the axis cafe. on april 10, edmonton’s raving poets celebrated 10 years of spoken word wonderfulness with a […]
My Canada includes Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Just days after Canada lost poet, novelist and painter P.K. Page at 93, Kate McGarrigle has left us at the far too young age of 63. Mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright (she used to be married to American folksinger Loudon Wainwright III), Kate is best known as half of Quebec’s beloved folk duo, the […]
20 minutes
Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte. Killed in a 20-minute war on ‘feminists.’ Lest we forget.
inside the drawer from hell
unable as i am to throw anything away, i came across in the junk drawer the other day: bits of string expired pizza coupons chinese takeaway menus three hundred and sixteen twist ties seven golf tees recipes for chicken wings (i’ve been vegetarian for twelve years) screws of various lengths fridge magnets yellowed dilbert comics […]
when private people go public
many of you are aware that i walked away from a 30-year career in journalism last summer in order to concentrate full-time on my own writing and painting. the latest step in this ongoing creative process is the construction of lauriemacfayden.com — a website devoted to my visual art. it’s been a weird evolution for […]