Jeannine Ouellette

Jan 14, 2025 | thedavidmcilroy.substack.com | David McIlroy |Jeannine Ouellette |Kate McKean |Annie Ridout

This post is free to read for the next 7 days. After that, it will be available to paid subscribers only. Upgrade your membership for complete, ongoing access to our full archive. Hey friend, 👋Well, here we are. Fifty editions deep. That’s a lot of Saturday mornings. That’s a lot of coffee. I hope you’ve been enjoying these roundups as much as I’ve enjoyed piecing them together. Here’s my favourite Note from the past week:A friend sent me that photo during an open evening in my old high school.

Nov 12, 2024 | writinginthedark.substack.com | Jeannine Ouellette

All creatures know love. All creatures. I’ve thought of this line almost every day for several years. It started while I was preparing to teach an animal writing class on Zoom (held jointly between my students at Shakopee Prison and a group of outside writers from Writing in the Dark). I was reading a lot of books featuring animals, one of which was Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. It’s a novel about a biologist who studies wolves and reintroduces wolves to their natural habitats.

Nov 2, 2024 | amandaearl.substack.com | Amanda Earl |Jeannine Ouellette |Chloe King |Suleika Jaouad

Image description: crotchet flower with pink petals and a yellow flower hanging on a tree. You think artists—writers write for that old cliché reason that people give? The intellectual likes to say that writers write to put order in the universe, but we know that the stories we read tear the universe apart and ask all kinds of questions, make people feel sad and fucked up. Andre Dubus, as quoted by :Jeannine Ouellette’s brilliant Substack, Writing in the Dark.

Oct 26, 2024 | amandaearl.substack.com | Amanda Earl |Jeannine Ouellette |Rebecca Woolf

Image description: I am wearing a red hoodie and looking up to a a sculpture of the moon made by Luke Jerram at the glass windowed tower of the Canadian Museum of Nature. Photo by Charles Earl on October 17, 2024, which we visited for the Rewilding Exhibition.

Oct 15, 2024 | amandaearl.substack.com | Amanda Earl |Wake Lloire |Jeannine Ouellette |Suleika Jaouad

I am grateful for the energy I have in the mornings and my ability to take naps in the afternoons. My brain wakes up about 4 or 5 in the morning and I swear I’m in a different time zone. I’d love to go out and meet someone early for coffee, but there’s no place here open at that time. I am restless in the mornings, often reading or writing between 4 to 7 am until it’s time to get moving. Then between about noon to 2pm I am completely toast. I can do nothing. Sometimes that goes into about 5pm.