Monday, September 25, 2017

A Few Pictures

"I didn’t take a lot of pics this trip, will get more at Thanksgiving.  Pic 2 and 3 are from across the bay at the beginning of the white trail.

Thanks for a lovely stay yet again. See you for dinner in a couple weeks." -- Sharon and Mike Arcaro




Sunday, September 24, 2017

Arowhon, the Real World

By Esther White (who participated in Brian Henry’s fall 2017 Writing Workshop Weekend)


I gladly left the hot hustle of the 407 on a Friday afternoon and headed north to cottage country. It produced a happy giddiness that only cottagers know. The roads twisted past gray-blue lakes edged with forests of vermilion, canary yellow and crimson foliage. The fall colours had arrived early and I felt as if I were the first person in Canada to see them on these lonely paths into the wilderness...Read more



Tuesday, September 19, 2017

June Writer's Retreat

"Evening all,

If you could manage to arrange a sort of teleportation device so I didn't have to contend with a 6-7 hour drive from London, that would be great. Otherwise, everything was pretty perfect. The facilities are awesome, the landscape is awesome, the staff is awesome...  

I am attaching a photo I took back in June which I had been meaning to send along.

Thank you so much for helping to make the writers retreat a success.

See you next June!" -- Helen E. Patterson