There are twelve boxes of books on the floor in my spare room, so I can’t have any overnight guests until they’re sold. Please help me by...

My novel A Garden in the Wilderness is currently being printed in Ottawa and will soon be on its way to Victoria. If you want a copy hot...

My novel has undergone a name change. What was once called Back to the Garden is now A GARDEN IN THE WILDERNESS. I do not like this...

I just got the news that my book Back to the Garden will be out by the end of January or early February next year. I can’t wait to hold...

Because the main character in my novels is a gardener, the theme of “the garden of Eden” is a natural fit. I use it in all my titles,...

Borealis Press is going to publish my book Back to the Garden! I am so excited I have been sitting on this news waiting until I actually...

The other day, I got together with my grade two, grade three and grade four teachers, their husbands and mine. My grade four teacher...

In 1795, my Dean ancestors decided to emigrate from Northern Ireland to New York. Not surprisingly, it was the political situation that...

It has been a long time since I blogged!  I have been busy finishing my final novel in The Pleasure Gardener’s Companion series. It is...

What treasures do you keep hidden in your memory that future generations would love to uncover? In my blog, I have already told how I...

I wanted to find the place where the original Dean house has stood. On the Internet, I had read this description: “For many years a...

Dean is a tiny community at the headwaters of the Musquodoboit River about 60 miles northeast of Halifax. We drove to Musquodoboit...

I am off for a couple of weeks to check out Dean, Nova Scotia, which was founded by my ancestor John Dean, about whom I am writing. Hope...

Yesterday was International Women’s Day. It reminded me how far we’ve come as women in the west even since I was a girl. But we should...

I was doing some genealogical research, you know, dry dates of marriages and deaths, when I came across a juicy story. I have been...