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Writing an artful life. Full Circle: A Collaboration. Rain, a photo by Isabel Antunes inspired by my story, Shame Shame. Recently one of my personal essays,. Was published at Hippocampus, an online literary magazine devoted to memorable creative non-fiction. I was so excited when I received the acceptance email over Christmas, I leaped out of my chair, screamed and jumped up and down. Would, after everything else, they try to take that away from me, too? It feels good to have told the truth about what wa...
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Writing an artful life. Tag Archive nicole breit. Shortlisted: Room’s 2015 Poetry Prize. What makes a poem? I’ve asked songwriters this question. “What inspired this? How did this amazing thing happen? Where do songs come from? When I asked my friend, Eryn. She shrugged, raising her hands as if to say “I don’t know” but also laughing a bit as she gestured mysteriously to the heavens. I learned on Monday that a poem I submitted to Room’s annual poetry contest was shortlisted. I ran with the challenge and ...
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baking | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. The Ex-Wife Special: A Recipe Just For You. Want to connect with your family history? Put aside the photo albums and go to your kitchen. It’s right there, in the cookbooks. Tonight my family and I went for dinner at our friend’s place. I brought along my aunt’s infamous appetizer, which she refers to as “The Ex-Wife Special”. Her deadly moist and sweet raisin bran muffins, served up alongside her kid-friendly half OJ, half ginger ale cocktail. These were served, without fail, ...
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art education | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. Relax and Enjoy the Arts. It’s Good For You. From Mrs. Davies Kindergarten Classroom, circa 1978. Art education is important for our kids. It helps develop imagination, critical thinking and problem solving skills. Making art helps stimulate memory and develop symbolic communication. It’s also a natural source of learning — a form of expression that reveals and deepens our understanding. I collaged, painted and mod-podged my way through my 20s and 30s. I took flamenco lessons.
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Freewheeling Inspiration (And Finishing What You Start) | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. Freewheeling Inspiration (And Finishing What You Start). It’s the best feeling in the world, being inspired, I say. Yesterday I read a really comforting and encouraging blog post. From one of my new favourite writers, Sarah Selecky (author of the gorgeous collection of short stories, “This Cake Is For The Party”) about those abandoned stories that are waiting for you to come back to them. If you try to go back and write the story according to what you thought it was before, you wi...
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poetry | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. Freewheeling Inspiration (And Finishing What You Start). It’s the best feeling in the world, being inspired, I say. Yesterday I read a really comforting and encouraging blog post. From one of my new favourite writers, Sarah Selecky (author of the gorgeous collection of short stories, “This Cake Is For The Party”) about those abandoned stories that are waiting for you to come back to them. If you try to go back and write the story according to what you thought it was before, you wi...
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My Great Uncle, The Poet | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. My Great Uncle, The Poet. You probably have a legend in your family. A relative you may have never met, but whose story is important and has been passed down to you. This young man is my Uncle Gab. He was made an RCAF Sargeant in December 1940, and was killed in a training accident over Scotland in July 1941. He was 23 when he died, with a fiancée waiting for him back in Canada. His widowed mother was waiting for him, too. How did it come to be written? The fact that this poem sur...
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personal essays | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. Freewheeling Inspiration (And Finishing What You Start). It’s the best feeling in the world, being inspired, I say. Yesterday I read a really comforting and encouraging blog post. From one of my new favourite writers, Sarah Selecky (author of the gorgeous collection of short stories, “This Cake Is For The Party”) about those abandoned stories that are waiting for you to come back to them. If you try to go back and write the story according to what you thought it was before, you wi...
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creativity | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. Relax and Enjoy the Arts. It’s Good For You. From Mrs. Davies Kindergarten Classroom, circa 1978. Art education is important for our kids. It helps develop imagination, critical thinking and problem solving skills. Making art helps stimulate memory and develop symbolic communication. It’s also a natural source of learning — a form of expression that reveals and deepens our understanding. I collaged, painted and mod-podged my way through my 20s and 30s. I took flamenco lessons.
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creativity | Nicole Breit
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Writing an artful life. Shortlisted: Room’s 2015 Poetry Prize. What makes a poem? I’ve asked songwriters this question. “What inspired this? How did this amazing thing happen? Where do songs come from? When I asked my friend, Eryn. She shrugged, raising her hands as if to say “I don’t know” but also laughing a bit as she gestured mysteriously to the heavens. I learned on Monday that a poem I submitted to Room’s annual poetry contest was shortlisted. Whom I’ve been mentoring with over the past year. I ran...
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