Hello and welcome to Something Like Love … in 2006 I spent six weeks in a cabin in the northern Georgia woods at the Hambidge Retreat Centre, and that part of the US was another world to me. I saw a black rat snake stretch right across the widt

Season 3, Episode 8: Saskatchewan

May 5th, 2021 19m 52s

Hello and welcome to Something Like Love. I was born and raised in Saskatchewan, and much of my family still lives in that oft over-looked province – if I had a dollar for all the times people have told me they’ve just “driven through” on the T

Season 3, Episode 7: Maui

Apr 28th, 2021 30m 41s

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Something Like Love. Here we are in Season 3, with travel and exploration as the theme. This week we'll spend some time in Maui. I share my essay "Haleakala Sunrise," from my essay collection "I Wasn't A

Season 3, Episode 6: San Francisco

Apr 21st, 2021 28m 59s

Season 3, Episode 5: Bali

Apr 14th, 2021 25m 50s

This week Something Like Love visits, Bali, where I travelled with my son in 2009, and we met an Indonesian tailor named Mowgly, travelled into the countryside on motorbike, and participated in a celebration of the Hindu goddess Sariswati. The

Season 3, Episode 4: Portugal

Apr 7th, 2021 26m 58s

Hello Friends. I’m Shelley Leedahl, a multi-genre writer in lovely Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, and this is Season 3 of my literary podcast, Something Like Love. I’ve always loved to explore, so I’m feeling the pain during these restrictive,

Season 3, Episode 3: Mérida, Mexico

Mar 31st, 2021 32m 38s

Season 3, Episode 2: Manitou Beach, Saskatchewan

Mar 24th, 2021 38m 41s

Season 3, Episode 1: Ireland

Mar 17th, 2021 16m 54s

Season 2, Episode 10: Boy

Jan 27th, 2021 35m 57s

Hello to you, and I hope this finds you well. Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of Something Like Love. My theme this week is Boy, and I’m reaching far back into the library to bring you a story from my short fiction collection, Orchestra of the

Season 2, Episode 9: Places

Jan 19th, 2021 20m 7s

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS BIG NEWS!I'm not going to give that news away here and now, but let's just say that 2020 ended on an extremely high note for this writer ... champagne was definitely poured and enjoyed. Hello, and welcome to Episode 9 of S

Season 2, Episode 8: Gold, Silver, Yellow

Jan 13th, 2021 26m 54s

Well isn't this new year just clipping along ... here we are already halfway through January. I have to tell you that sometimes it's a struggle to get a weekly podcast ready. I don't know if it was the grim weather, or my own low energy, but I

Season 2, Episode 7: Joni

Jan 6th, 2021 15m 40s

Welcome to the 7th episode of Season 2, in which Joni Mitchell's been the inspiration for my cover song, and she appears in my prose and poetry. In this pint-sized episode I share an essay I wrote decades ago for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix ... i

Season 2, Episode 6: Love

Dec 30th, 2020 21m 54s

Hey, here we are on the edge of a new year, and I say bring it on! This week's episode of Something Like Love is all about .... well, Love! I start with a cover of Sarah MacLachlan's "Ice Cream," continue with five poems - four from my books, p

Season 2, Episode 5: Morning

Dec 23rd, 2020 40m 5s

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of Something Like Love. And hey, Merry Christmas, too!Like many Canadians of a certain age, the soundtrack to a few decades of my life has been the music of the Tragically Hip. I saw them perform several times, a

Season 2, Episode 4: Mother

Dec 16th, 2020 34m

Hello Friends, and welcome to the 4th Episode in Season 2 of my literary podcast, Something Like Love. As usual, I've picked a theme - this week it's "mother" - and I cover a song, share some writing, and end with a meditation of some sort. It

Season 2, Episode 3: Wind

Dec 9th, 2020 33m 17s

Hello Friends, I’m Shelley Leedahl, a writer in lovely Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, and this is my literary podcast, Something Like Love. The ten shows in Season 2 will centre around random weekly themes, and I’ll release a new episode each W

Season 2, Episode 2: Eyes

Dec 2nd, 2020 30m 57s

Season 2, Episode 1: Moon

Nov 25th, 2020 27m 38s

Hello, Friends. Welcome to my literary podcast Something Like Love, Season 2, Episode 1. I’m Shelley Leedahl in lovely Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, and this is my literary podcast. The 10 shows in Season 2 will feature random weekly themes, a

Episode 10 - The Beginning of the End of the World

Nov 18th, 2020 35m 14s

Historic events. JFK’s assassination in 1963. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969. The end of the Vietnam war, and the birth of the first test tube baby, in the 1970s. The murder of John Lennon in 1980. The nuclear disast

Episode 9 - Jayne's Room

Nov 11th, 2020 29m 1s

I've always enjoyed the stories and movies where it's left up to the reader or audience to decide what's really going in. (I'm thinking right now about "The Blair Witch Project.") In my short story “Jayne’s Room,” a babysitter learns that there

Episode 8 - Can You Double Dutch?

Nov 4th, 2020 26m 23s

Sometimes – in fact, rather often – my stories come out of nowhere, but I want to share a secret with you … in the story you’re about to hear, Can You Double Dutch?, I lifted one scene from my own life. I took a single, lived experience and bui

Episode 7 - Thursday Nights and Saturday Afternoons

Oct 28th, 2020 22m 15s

Before I was old enough to have a social insurance number, I earned money like many young people did and do – by babysitting. I have fond memories of babysitting for a number of different families in my hometown of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, an

Episode 6 - Besides, I Like The Rain

Oct 21st, 2020 30m 5s

I’ve lived in various communities in all three western provinces, including Saskatoon, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Edmonton, and Sechelt, but I grew up in four small Saskatchewan towns – Kyle, Turtleford, Wilkie and Meadow Lake – and there were defi