Merrilyn Huycke

Experiencing China ~ you must try the Peking Duck

Just as you must not miss at least touching The Wall, you must have Peking Duck in Peking

Good things can happen when you take a trip outside your comfort zone

At what point in that arc over the Pacific Ocean, up over Russia and down the Asian coast did it become tomorrow?

The thrill of birth and the changes in birthing

We’ve been participating in and celebrating the birth of our fourth grandchild

A perfect time to take note of our blessings

Merrilyn reminds us of what is important and what we have.

ARTI-FACTS: Breaking bread builds bonds

I want to tell you of a young man who entered my life briefly in 1981 and why I still think of him.

Don’t fight it, there are benefits to sliding into senior-hood

If you aren’t yet a senior, listen and learn for this too will happen to you.

Bewildered, then blindsided by an emerging passion

Merrilyn Huycke is a local artist who will share her thoughts, ideas, memories and humour with our readers on a weekly basis.

We need to keep singing the songs for our young ones

Merrilyn Huycke is a local artist who will share her thoughts, ideas, memories and humour with our readers on a weekly basis.

Epic trip ~ leaving a piece of my heart in Quebec City

Merrilyn continues her tale of the epic trip across Canada.

Epic trip ~ memories flood in upon the return to Manitoba

I had taken all this for granted when I lived there but clearly I had absorbed this landscape into my psyche

Finding heritage and architecture on an epic trip across Canada

Merrilyn continues with her memories of an epic trip across Canada

Small villages and towns are places for artists of all kinds

Perhaps it’s the lack of existing structure, a nearly clean slate if you will. Maybe it’s the history of the place.

Support and encouragement is not a bad thing at all

Merrilyn Huycke is a local artist who will share her thoughts, ideas, memories and humour with our readers on a weekly basis.

Sorting lifetime possessions and valuing the history behind them

Merrilyn discusses the realization of, "that what is precious to one person may have no significance to another."

Short-circuiting the attacks of embarrassing idiocy

Merrilyn discusses conflict with graffiti in this weeks Arti-Facts.