ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar is a decolonizing memoir and a Truth and Reconciliation project, building on the life jolt Dorothy experienced on re-reading CPT’s 1852 children’s story Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains during the pandemic lockdown. Sixty-five years after last hearing her father read it aloud over several successive Sundays, Dorothy owns the “truth” of her unaware complicity in Canada’s colonization project. She exposes the colonizer m...

Join humming heroine "M" and her humming companions —bees, hummingbirds, dragonflies, and butterflies –as they gather for a humming circle around the honeysuckle bush. A story for children of all ages— and most especially those who love nature, music, dancing and hugs—Hmmm - M the Humdinger teaches how love and friendships grow when we learn to celebrate one another's differences.Inspired by a writing workshop with renowned children's author Sheree Fitch, ...