A Torontonians musings on life in southern Manitoba
There’s a new blog in town that details life in southern Manitoba from an outsider’s perspective. It’s called “Morden Bound,” and its description is “How I survived the safest town in the middle of nowhere.”
The author of this new blog spoke to the Standard on condition of anonymity.
Born in Lithuania to Jewish-Belarussian parents, the blogger’s family immigrated to Canada when she was a child, and Canada has been her home for more than three decades.
While she travels back and forth between Toronto and Morden, the small town has become her second home, and she plans to make a permanent move, she said.
“The experience recorded in my first post, ‘Mordenites are not afraid of the dark,’ was too funny to pass up,” she said when asked what inspired her to create a blog.
“We decided then and there (at around 2 a.m., safely indoors) that a Torontonian’s view of living in Mor-den would be both unique and amusing.”
As an English major with a background in literary analysis, she has been writing creatively all her life — mostly poetry and a personal blog full of dreams, anecdotes and travel writing.
She hopes to publish a new blog post once a week or biweekly, if circumstances allow.
“The fruit trees, and the cucumbers and the corn. And anything else that I can eat, including the abundance of potatoes that an East European will never fail to appreciate,” she said, when asked what she loves most about southern Manitoba.
“In short, if you see someone in the bushes because she spotted a raspberry, (or more recently, in the apple tree near George’s), that’s me.”
For those interested in checking out her musings, the mystery writer’s blog can be viewed at https://www.mordenbound.ca/
