Author Archives: Veronica

Other things are going on in the world, besides the usual.  The big news in Canada is the PM falling out of a kayak.  This week, Kenya has their elections. Much respect for Kenyans who faced long line-ups to cast their vote: … Continue reading →

“No matter what happens, the sun will rise in the morning” – US President Barack Obama President Obama dances the Lipala in Kenya.

Check out my latest project in Kenya:

Toronto Star Books Section Saturday October 24 very honourrrred…     –> support independent CDN publishers/bookstores = that support local CDN & Indigenous authors:            & honoured to be invited to International Festival of Authors Toronto this year: a … Continue reading →

Two baby orphans at the elephant orphanage in Nairobi. They’re both small. The little fellow on the right – less than 4 feet tall. At the orphanage just two months, he was very quiet.  He stared at the ground most of the … Continue reading →

Jambo. In Kenya with my first book of poetry: Sword Dance (Exile, awesome publisher)

Monday, June 22, 6:00 pm Windup Bird Café  382 College Street, Toronto

Poetic Justice: Walking the Talk in Eco-Education In the empty lot – a place not natural, but wild – among the trash of human absence, the slough and shamble of the city’s seasons, a few old locusts bloom. (Wendell Berry, … Continue reading →

This post is in honour of my mother, Grace Gallacher Gaylie (Tobin), born in Glasgow, Scotland, passed away in Vancouver Canada, September 10, 2014. I chose this photo for my mother’s funeral prayer card.  Here my mother sits in her wheelchair: … Continue reading →