Migration has been a recurring theme in my life and family history.My mother’s ancestors left Ireland in the nineteenth century to seek a better life in what was then the frontier of Canada’s Ottawa Valley.Her lone Scottish ancestor, my great-great...
June 25, 2015 As part of a series of interviews with Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® finalists 2015, I chatted with the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood about writing, life and Canada. Check out the interview here.
Before the Golden Heart® class of 2015 named itself the Dragonflies, I hadn’t thought much about that particular insect. I hadn’t had a positive experience with dragonflies, but I hadn’t had a negative one either. Dragonflies were simply peripheral...
Sometimes it seems anti-heroes are everywhere.Many are in our workplaces, as the recent #DistractinglySexy Twitter campaign in response to sexism in science illustrates.Anti-heroes also appear on public transport. Like the man in a suit and carrying a laptop bag who,...
I’ve thought a lot lately about my mission as a writer. What do I want readers to take away from my work? To answer that question, I keep coming back to the angel teddy bear perched on the bookshelf beside my writing desk.The bear was a gift I gave myself many...
