Meandering…A Slightly Immodest “About Me”

“One word is worth a thousand pictures”–La Grande Sauterelle in Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in historical geography at the University of Alberta.  Reading is still my greatest passion beacuse words allow me to imagine landscapes and places (and the ‘spaces’ in between) that are so important to my work.  I [...]

“You Want To Do It Right Now? Yes, Right Here, Right Now, On The Continental Divide”

So Jack and La Grande Sauterelle do “it”–at the exact spot where the rivers go east and west. Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues (1984, translated 1988) is the story of two people searching–for Jack, his estranged brother Theo; La Grande Sauterelle (“Big Grasshopper”) an identity that isn’t just based on her metissage ancestry.  Jack and Sauterelle [...]

Hello Fellow Travellers!

In a few words, I’m here. Thanks to all who convinced me. The above late 19th century “Falls of Eternal Despair” (author unknown, d. 1895) caught my interest the moment I laid my eyes on it. The landscaped stories that weave through the geography are fascinating. Troubling. Thanks for coming through…