Upcoming Workshops & Retreats 2020, 2021

Lots of Updates… some of them good. (We need more good especially these days.)Workshops and Retreats for 2020/21Due to the current advisories in effect pretty much worldwide, our retreat in Spain has had to be cancelled. For this year! That’s right,...

Ronda, City of Dreams

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~ Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke statue in Ronda In April, when Radical Restoration goes to Spain to write, a one-day excursion to this magical city is planned. After a day of literary and historical...

Writing & Yoga in Spain

Within a month of announcing it early this year, the April 2020 writing and yoga retreat in Spain filled up. But plans change, especially when you consider that there were sixteen of us planning that trip so far in advance. Regrettably, four people have had to...

Losing and Winning and Sunnyside Eggs

I’ve just come back from a celebratory brunch at the lovely Sunnyside Cafe in my new neighbourhood of Esquimalt, British Columbia. They have the best egg dishes. Their hollandaise is gloriously decadent. I usually go for something with smoked salmon, but today I...

Things You Bury

Maybe blogs are passe. It’s all about Instagram now. And Snapchat. The blink of an eye. A snapshot, a twenty-second video, a phrase rather than a sentence… Bite-sized pieces. Still… we writers go on writing, encouraging other writers to do the same....