Day 31: Arriving Alive (the final instalment)

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 ~ Kit Vantastic ~ 26 Comments

I begin this last day of writing a month in a minivan in a state of art-pray, thinking about snakes. As a young girl, I often caught garter snakes to play with for short times. Other than foul-smelling pee, they were harmless. You could find them under hay bales at harvest time, and every old … Continue reading Day 31: Arriving Alive (the final instalment)

Lessons from a Wise Right Ear

January 15, 2018January 15, 2018 ~ Kit Vantastic ~ 4 Comments

Despite travelling 30,000 kilometres through two countries; seeing breath-taking sites and meeting fascinating people, the biggest lesson I may have learned in 2017 didn’t come from being on the road; it came from an earache. I’d like to tell you how the earache began while pelted by icy glacier water as I bathed in … Continue reading Lessons from a Wise Right Ear