Woodward On Words

I am now a full-time writer having retired from work as a lighthouse keeper, full- and part-time from 2008-2021 on Canada's West Coast. When Life is tough, for a friend or myself, I try to rally with the expression: Onwords! Upwords! hence the title of this blog. At one brief point in my previous career in publishing, I called myself Wayword Promotions and helped colleagues figure out publishing contracts, organize reading tours and the like. Now I'm relaunching my own writing career. Onwords!

Sunday, May 19, 2024

The Impact of Alice Munro in Three Sightings & Other Stories

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I wish I could remember exactly where I was, and why, when I first read a story written by Alice Munro. It must have been in the tumultuous ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The Garden Calling: a Poem

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While we sleep, cook, tend to our email they stretch out, they burrow down deep oh, how the dandelions and crab grass flourish they dig in, ...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Tulips: a Poem about Eyesight

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"My eyes are dim I cannot see I have not brought my specs with me (forte gusto) I ha-a-a-ve not broughhhht my specs with me!"    S...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Scallops & Prawns in Vermouth: a Poem

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  This savoury concoction was first witnessed in a field at a Tomato Festival somewhere in the south Okanagan where master chefs battled lik...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Pathogenesis: a Poem about Plagues

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  Pathogenesis can be parsed in two even by those of us without a Latin underpinning grammatically speaking 'patho' root of patholog...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Obscurity Becomes Us

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  Aldous Huxley once uttered this pithy wisdom:   "I am afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celer...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

An Old Acquaintance Approaching

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From two blocks away, I recognize him A wrecked lower back I think All that heavy work, decades of it One leg splays outward, the left More ...
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Caroline Woodward
Published writer from age sixteen onwards but it's taken me a long time to find peace and quiet and focus and material to write about in the 'right' way. Now is the time and the place and life is wonderful. I am grateful, almost beyond words, but not quite.
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