Field Notes ~ Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

I am trying to put together a book proposal for a new collection of essays. This means I need a Table of Contents, a description of the b...

(Blobs in background are just people obscured for their privacy.) These are my friends, Sam and Alia. I feel lucky to call them my frie...

Andre Poulet is shaking his tail feathers for Year of the Rooster! When I lived in Vancouver, Chinese New Year celebrations were a big d...

I've hit the wall. It happens. Not a lot (thank goodness) and I don't "give up writing" like I did twenty years ago.  ...

Hello, old friends, where have you been for 20 years? Back in Ontario, in the house my parents lived in for a few years near Trenton, th...

The day after I landed at Dwayne's home in rural Nova Scotia nearly ten years ago, he packed up the four-wheeler (with his city girl ...

As published in the Citizen-Record newspaper on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, by Sara Jewell Russell Trueman reveals the dollhouse that s...