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Be careful what you wish for…
The summer of 2016 has been my first full summer in Canada in almost sixteen years. When I lived in England, I often thought about Canadian summers with wistfulness. As gusts of cold wind buffeted my umbrella, and I sloshed through puddles on my way to my day job, I...
The tale of a travelling china cabinet
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 sits on...
Birthdays
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 message was clear. From...
Canadian repatriation: One year
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 chips and...
The Cottage at Firefly Lake: Cover reveal and giveaway
My first book, THE COTTAGE AT FIREFLY LAKE, releases on January 31, 2017 in mass market paperback and e-book, and it's up for pre-order on Amazon.com, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK and Barnes & Noble. Today, I'm delighted to share my beautiful cover with you. It...
Summer reading
When I was at school, the last bell of the year signalled not only the beginning of the long summer holiday but also many weeks of reading. Back then, after months of set school texts, summer was a glorious time to read what I wanted.Although those days are long gone,...
Wedding memories
Tech Guy and I marked our twentieth wedding anniversary this week.His niece, who was our flower girl all those years ago, is being married in August and her mom circulated engagement photos to the extended family last weekend.Looking at those engagement pictures and...
Life lessons in ABC
We've all had times which have brought more life lessons than we wanted to learn. As the primary caregiver for a child diagnosed with a chronic illness, the past five months have been that way for me.Yet, as I look back, I realize that maybe they were lessons I needed...
Friends
I've been thinking about friendship lately because relationships between friends (and family) underpin the stories I write. In parallel with the central romance, my heroes and heroines are part of a larger cast of characters and a community (in my current series, the...
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