The tale of a travelling china cabinet

Aug 12, 2016 | Blog | 10 comments

This week, a moving van arrived at my home. It brought a china cabinet that’s been in my mother’s family since the mid-nineteenth century.In the furniture world, the cabinet is a stately dowager duchess or grizzled elder statesman. Made of solid wood, it...

Birthdays

Jul 29, 2016 | Blog | 8 comments

We had a trio of birthdays in my family this week. My mother-in-law, a cousin and my own.As English Rose remarked with all the sensitivity of an almost teen, I’m getting “old.” When I raised an eyebrow, she quickly amended it to “older” but the...

Canadian repatriation: One year

Jul 15, 2016 | Blog | 8 comments

On 18 July 2015 English Rose and I landed in Toronto on an Aer Lingus flight from London via Dublin. I was on my way home, but English Rose had left the only home she’d ever known.Missing EnglandOne year later, I still miss the gentle English mist, fish and...

The Cottage at Firefly Lake: Cover reveal and giveaway

Jul 7, 2016 | News | 0 comments

July 7, 2016THE COTTAGE AT FIREFLY LAKE, the first book in my small-town Vermont series, releases on January 31, 2017 in mass market paperback and ebook. It’s an emotional, second chance love story about redemption and finding your way home and, as part of...