Hey everyone! We’re switching things up today! The childhood stories I was telling were a lot of fun, and I’ll get back to them sometime soon, but I wanted to keep things fresh and leave myself some room to talk about what was on my mind, right now.

And, what’s on my mind right now is hedgehogs. I have two of them – Hazel, who is 3, and Clover, who is 1 1/2. Hazel is the small, dainty, cute one, and Clover is the big, dumb one. (Aww, who am I kidding? She’s cute too.) Hedgehogs are great pets for people who are allergic to cats & dogs – they’re neat (mostly), very quiet, and they’re litter trainable.

Hazel is the one in today’s strip, and the one sitting in my hand in the picture to the right. When I first got her, we were living in a very small, rather chilly apartment. The warmest, most out of the way spot in the apartment was right under my drawing table. And so, that’s where Hazel grew up! When she first came home, she could stand in the palm of my hand, and I have tiny hands!!

I guess what I’m saying is – I love my hedgehogs. Even when they poop on me.

Ok. I did a sneaky thing here. You remember how in the very first comic, I mentioned that Little Pine First Nation is my reserve. That is entirely true. It says so on my Indian Status card, and that’s where I usually go for special occasions.

However, it is not the reserve that I am at in this comic. Little Pine is my grandfather’s reserve. Cowessess First Nation, where I spent my summers, is my grandmothers reserve. And my great grandmother’s reserve. In fact, that’s my great grandmother there, in the last panel. I was lucky enough to know her growing up, and I have tons and tons of wonderful memories of going to her house in the summertime. It was always filled with family – cousins, aunties and uncles, and various relations too many times removed for five-year old me to be able to keep straight in my mind. (When in doubt, I called everyone cousin)

The City of Broadview, which is nearby, has a great intro to the reserve and the area around it!

Hello, hello, hello everyone!! Welcome to Moosehead Stew!

What exactly is Moosehead Stew? Well, aside from being a *traditional plains way of preparing moose, it’s also a journal comic about me, a Cree girl from Saskatchewan. Many of you probably know me from my other comic, Weregeek, and you can still expect a healthy serving of geek humor here at Moosehead Stew, since my life is pretty geeky. But you can also expect to see other stuff, like glimpses of my past, my family & friends, and my travels. Enjoy a rich stew of moments, ideas and observations from my everyday life, with just a pinch of randomness thrown in for seasoning. I hope you enjoy it!

Moosehead Stew will update Monday, Wednesday and Friday for now, but I hope to see how things go balancing this with my other comic, Weregeek. If all goes well, I hope to have Moosehead Stew run 5 days a week!

If you like what you’ve seen so far, please show your support by heading on over to the forum and saying hi!

*Usually made with just the moose nose, as it is considered a delicacy, but moosehead sounded better.