March 3, 2012Brooklyn, NY It’s Saturday night and only just past the witching hour… And I’m already back in my hotel room. I’m such a good girl. It was a long and successful day in New York City! Sunny, mild, and thoroughly replete with beautiful people, raw oysters, and polka-dots. I left the Great White North on Thursday, one day…   see more…

February 14, 2012Toronto, ON Mes Cheries, Happy Valentines Day! I’m back in bed, watching the X-files and drinking coffee with my Valentine. Who has dog breath. She’s still asleep, but any moment now Ursa la Sweetland will decide it’s time to get up and walk around the corner to the dog park, where I’m destined to throw her little blue…   see more…

February 6, 2012Toronto ON Coming very soon to The Cameron House … The Sweetest event of the year! A Sweet Soirée -Valentine`s Cabaret- Thursday, February 9thHosted by Kristin SweetlandStarring: Jess McAvoy, Evalyn Parry, David Newland, Scarlett Jane (Andrea Ramolo & Cindy Doire.) And of course, Lyndell Montgomery and the return of Captain Dirt & The Skirt! More details on my…   see more…

January 19, 2012 Dalkeith, ON Well it sure is winter here in Farm Heaven. The winter we, in the big city, thought might never come… I found it. It was at the end of a long road, down a dirt road, all along. And I was pleased to find it quite happy to see me. With that particular brand of bitter…   see more…

January 3, 2012Toronto, ON Happy New Year, People! It’s a good one already. I was planning on staying home New Year’s Eve with my faux fire, fuzzy slippers and guitar… Would have sipped some superb sparkling rosé and penned an inspirational blog post with words like “resolution” and “apocalypse” and “unapologetically glamorous.” However, in the end I decided to venture…   see more…

December 18, 2011Toronto, ON Dear Santa, I know I usually write sooner, but for some reason I’m just not in the Christmas spirit yet. And not in a bad way. I’m surely no Sweetlandish Scrooge. But more in the kind of way you might be if you were mysteriously adrift on a barge south of the equator, or perhaps a…   see more…

December 1, 2011Toronto, ON Gentle Readers, It is I, your delinquent Sweetypie with tales from far and wide. Or perhaps, just tall tales. You decide. My sincere apologies for the delay in updates lately. I plead intensely artistically focused, and impressively social! You would be proud. And you did miss an important thing or two while I was busy being…   see more…

October 18, 2011Toronto, ON I’m Home Sweetland Home after an epic weekend at the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals conference in Niagara Falls. I’ve been to tons of these kinds of events in the past, but I confess, this was one of the best. It was so good to see so many of the people I dearly love in one…   see more…

October 10, 2011Toronto, ON Happy Thanksgiving! It’s yet another incredibly glorious day in the big city. I’m relaxing by the metaphorical pool after last night’s fantastic Thanksgiving dinner chez moi.  Our meal was delicious and surprisingly vegan, featuring all the traditional fixings à la Sweetland. (And a live concert by the one and only Darlene while I cooked!) Tonight I…   see more…

September 3, 2011Toronto, ON Good morning! The sun just emerged from behind a cloud —as if on cue— when the church bells across the street started ringing. I usually let said bells rise me on Sunday mornings. Then I peek out from my window perch to watch the minister greet all the smiling morning parishioners who seem to have made…   see more…