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My favourite Christmas memory
When I was growing up, Christmas was a magical time of year. Although money wasn't plentiful, my parents made sure I never did without and, even when times were lean, brightly wrapped presents were always piled beneath the tree on Christmas morning. However, as an...
Back Home at Firefly Lake — Book birthday & reader giveaway
Back Home at Firefly Lake, the third book in my series of small-town romantic stories set in the fictional Firefly Lake, Vermont, is out in digital and mass-market paperback next Tuesday, December 5th (28th December for the paperback in the UK), and I'm excited about...
Books on my nightstand
Confession time. To my husband's dismay, and as the teetering pile of books on my nightstand attests, I'm the kind of person who reads multiple books at the same time, happily skipping from one to another as the mood takes me. I'm also the kind of person who reads...
Meet me at the diner – Contemporary romance author Jennifer Wilck
If you read my blog regularly, you know that I occasionally feature writer friends in a series called "Meet Me at the Diner." Today it's my pleasure to welcome Jennifer Wilck, a contemporary romance author with the Wild Rose Press. I met Jennifer at the Romance...
Family ties
My mom grew up in a picturesque Canadian village in rural eastern Ontario—twelve miles from where I now live. Dotted with stone buildings and tucked into a rolling landscape of century farms and historic waterways, it’s a place that shaped me as a person, as well as...
In search of comfort food
"When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping." Or in my case, shopping for comfort food. As the weather cools, and darkness comes earlier, it's the time of year for comfort food. However, in addition to childhood favorites like chicken pot pie, macaroni and...
My reading life
Long before I became an author, I was, and still am, an avid reader. Since early childhood, reading has been a huge part of my life—so much so that I'm always perplexed when asked how I find time to "fit" reading in. How could I not fit it in? Reading is almost as...
Endings and new beginnings
The leaves on the maple trees are changing from green to red, yellow, and orange here in the Rideau Valley, and as another summer transitions to autumn, endings and new beginnings are much on my mind. English Rose started high school this week, a major life milestone...
Kindness
As many of you know, "kindness" is my word for 2017. All too often, though, it can seem we're living in a world where kindness is in short supply. The global news headlines are almost unceasingly grim. My social media feeds catalogue ills large and small. And in my...
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