Alison McKinnon

Writer of words.

Sometimes afraid.

Mostly okay.

  • My year of possibility is off to a brilliant start.   Two things I have discovered are possible: You can give yourself a concussion while putting on your boots. I can be forced into stillness. Yes, it is ridiculous but true.  It happened while rushing out the door to pick my girls up from school on…

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  • The New Year lies before me like a beautiful, new journal.   Crisp, clean, perfect pages ready for the story I will tell.  As I inhale the papery goodness I am euphoric with possibility. This is not the year of resolutions or goals.  This is the year of possibility.  Possibility can’t be broken or unmet.  It…

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  • This past summer my husband and I decided to move our family from Hamilton to Sarnia.  Family and friends had many questions.  Why are you moving?  Why now?  Why Sarnia?  Have you lost your minds? There are many reasons to question our mental stability but this decision was not one of them. Ten years ago…

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