Theresa Kishkan
@fishgottaswim.bsky.social
a devotee of essays, novellas, hybrid writing, rivers, trees. 17 books. The Art of Looking Back: a painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, forthcoming (Thornapple Press, 2026). North American half of fishgottaswimeditions.com theresakishkan.com
Thank you, @rwpickard.bsky.social, for such a thoughtful and generous review of The Art of Looking Back. boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/ther...
Theresa Kishkan, The Art of Looking Back
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3 years since we lost #JimmyBuffett. I wrote a little thing in 2018 about what his music means to my family www.kellyblack.ca/stories/2018...
We are Going to Jimmy Buffett’s Funeral — KB
Last fall my wife, dad, and I took a quick trip from Vancouver Island to Washington State for the celebration of life of a long-time family friend, Dennis. Dennis and my dad, Jim, met in the early 197...
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Thank you, @rwpickard.bsky.social, for such a thoughtful and generous review of The Art of Looking Back. boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/ther...
Theresa Kishkan, The Art of Looking Back
Let me do the thumbnail first, because I've enough to say that frontloading the reviewiest bit about Theresa Kishkan's The Art of Looking Ba...
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theresakishkan.com/2026/09/06/t... Alt text: a clump of big-leaf maple samaras, chartreuse and magenta, on a grey rock
the samaras are falling
This morning, walking back to the car after my swim (12 degrees, a kingfisher skimming the surface of the lake, one island still dark, the other bright with early sun), I stopped to pick up this cl…
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theresakishkan.com/2026/09/04/s... Alt text: colander of green grapes, colander of red tomatoes
September song: a still life
But it’s a long, long while from May to DecemberAnd the days grow short when you reach SeptemberAnd the autumn weather turns the leaves to flameAnd I haven’t got time for waiting game I…
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When someone sends the most beautiful card and handmade booklet to you. (Thank you so much, @calmspin.bsky.social)
theresakishkan.com/2026/08/31/q... Alt text: deep red raku tea bowl, pine cone
quotidian, August 31
Doing: Yesterday it rained on and off all day. The house smelled of apples from the buckets and bags in the utility room. So I made 3 pies for the freezer (with plans to make more today) and a crum…
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theresakishkan.com/2026/08/31/q... Alt text: deep red raku tea bowl, pine cone
quotidian, August 31
Doing: Yesterday it rained on and off all day. The house smelled of apples from the buckets and bags in the utility room. So I made 3 pies for the freezer (with plans to make more today) and a crum…
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Storytime: Audiobooks to Pair With Your Summer Plans | Read Local BC
We’ve picked six of our favourite audiobooks that you can listen to on late summer road trips, commutes, and perhaps while doing a puzzle at home… or maybe that’s just me. Some of these titles are ava...
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"I do my best, or at least I think I do. But I also know I'm careless. I don't take enough time. I'm impatient. I say I'm interested in process more than results, and I think that's true, but maybe I could take more time with the process, guide my work a little more carefully."
Theresa Kishkan@fishgottaswim.bsky.social · last wk.theresakishkan.com/2026/08/28/t... Alt text: blue cloth on a clothesline with trees in the background
theresakishkan.com/2026/08/28/t... Alt text: blue cloth on a clothesline with trees in the background
“The atmospheric distance between you and the mountains.” (Rebecca Solnit)
I’m getting ready to make an indigo vat to dye some lengths of linen and to try to extend the life of two duvet covers, white cotton, which have become a little stained over the years. It did…
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theresakishkan.com/2026/08/28/t... Alt text: blue cloth on a clothesline with trees in the background
“The atmospheric distance between you and the mountains.” (Rebecca Solnit)
I’m getting ready to make an indigo vat to dye some lengths of linen and to try to extend the life of two duvet covers, white cotton, which have become a little stained over the years. It did…
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theresakishkan.com/2026/08/26/a... Alt text: blurry image of a black bear among grasses
“As for me I am a child of the god of the mountains.” (Gary Snyder)
The other night we arrived home from supper at the pub in Egmont and saw this bear standing under the big crabapple tree below our vegetable garden. The bears come every year for the crabs that gro…
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theresakishkan.com/2026/08/26/a... Alt text: blurry image of a black bear among grasses
“As for me I am a child of the god of the mountains.” (Gary Snyder)
The other night we arrived home from supper at the pub in Egmont and saw this bear standing under the big crabapple tree below our vegetable garden. The bears come every year for the crabs that gro…
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theresakishkan.com/2026/08/21/w... A cedar-clad wall with a blue door, a handsaw, and a galvanized wash tub.
we are old (near the mountain)
We were talking in the kitchen a few weeks ago when my son said something that sort of surprised me. He said our place is a bit of a museum and that whenever he and his kids visit a small-town muse…
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I love it when people respond to my book! So much of my writing life is quiet, thoughtful...Knowing that my book finds readers, finds kindred souls -- it's everything.
Barbara@calmspin.bsky.social · 3w agoThank you @fishgottaswim.bsky.social Your novel arrived today and the beginning has immediately transported me back to the social dynamics of my own art school memories. Compellingly written. ✨
"I see all the blue possibilities: a line of white like a zipper, deeper when the water is reflected, and oh, the grey-blue of the kingfisher passing right over my head."
Theresa Kishkan@fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3w agotheresakishkan.com/2026/08/19/q... Alt text: blue sky with white cloud
theresakishkan.com/2026/08/19/q... Alt text: blue sky with white cloud
quotidian, blue possibilities
Thinking: about the bundle of linen I have stored away for an early September dye vat and how when I look up at the sky as I’m swimming my morning back stroke, I see all the blue possibilitie…
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theresakishkan.com/2026/08/19/q... Alt text: blue sky with white cloud
quotidian, blue possibilities
Thinking: about the bundle of linen I have stored away for an early September dye vat and how when I look up at the sky as I’m swimming my morning back stroke, I see all the blue possibilitie…
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This morning I wrote about summer. theresakishkan.com/2026/08/17/s... Alt text: a window surrounded by marbled pink curtains.
so swift time flies
So quickly the summer passes. Just last week, wasn’t it, I was tying up roses, planting out the tiny tomato plants. I was thinking ahead. Some family members would arrive in July, some in Aug…
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Thank you @fishgottaswim.bsky.social Your novel arrived today and the beginning has immediately transported me back to the social dynamics of my own art school memories. Compellingly written. ✨
This morning I wrote about summer. theresakishkan.com/2026/08/17/s... Alt text: a window surrounded by marbled pink curtains.
so swift time flies
So quickly the summer passes. Just last week, wasn’t it, I was tying up roses, planting out the tiny tomato plants. I was thinking ahead. Some family members would arrive in July, some in Aug…
theresakishkan.com
