The Loyalist is my great-great-great-great-grandfather who came to be known as Michael Eisan, though he had many names over the course of...

I wanted to say thank you to all the people who showed up at my launch at First Metropolitan United on Friday. It was great to have so...

Just a reminder that I will be launching two books this Friday, December 6th at 1:00 at First Metropolitan United Church on the corner of...

It’s great to be back in Victoria after spending a few weeks in Edmonton where I launched by books. If you came out to one of the two...

My visits to Edmonton are more about descendants than ancestors: my three children and now three grandchildren live here. So my time is...

I think this book is actually my favourite in the series. I also think it is the least commercially marketable. It begins with a rather...

I’m editing Letters from a Belfast Gardener in preparation for publishing it on Smashwords. The next step is to prepare a cover. I’m...

I’m excited to announce that you can now buy a hard copy of my book The Serpentine Garden Path from Amazon.com This is a prequel to A...

As you know, my novel A Garden in the Wilderness was published by Borealis Press recently. It did not always have that title. I...

It has been great getting positive feedback from readers of my book A Garden in the Wilderness. I don’t suppose that people who hate it...

On April 12, 1792 , armed with five pistols, eight boys declared war on the Principal and Patrons of  their school in Belfast, Ireland....

There once was a brother and sister who lived in Belfast at the end of the eighteenth centry– Henry Joy and Mary Anne McCracken. They...

John and Susan Dean lived in Northern Ireland from 1790-1795. They left because of the political situation. If you think the troubles...

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...

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...