Ordinary Magic: Intervals in a Life

Award-winning writer Meeka Walsh kept these journals while travelling - in Israel, Rome and Russia - and when she was home again. They share magic found in unexpected places - from a waiting room in a Moscow airport where the author enjoys a picnic with friends, to a yard in Winnipeg where an elderly gardener has fashioned himself a lover from a hedge. The journals also share the author's private journey from a bitter divorce to a renewed sense of herself and life's possibilities. "An intimate and intelligent journey through countries both foreign and familiar, real and imagined. I like the woman who wrote this book, who allowed me to see the daily unfolding of her ordinary and magical life."-Lorna Crozier.

Meeka Walsh is the editor of Border Crossings, an award-winning international art magazine. She has contributed essays to a number of catalogues published in Canada and the United States. Her books include Ordinary Magic, a travel memoir and The Garden of Earthly Intimacies, a collection of short stories. Ms Walsh has also edited Don Reichert: A Life in Work, and The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage: The Photographs of Diana Thorneycroft. In 2003 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Western Magazine Awards Foundation and in 2007 she received a medal from the RCA for her contribution to visual art in Canada.