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    • Sep 2, 2014

    Announcements

    I’m giving away 5 free copies of The Serpentine Garden Path at Goodreads on October 1st. Check it out at Goodreads. All you have to do is...
    • Dec 9, 2013

    Successful Launch

    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...
    • Sep 24, 2013

    Edmonton launches

    My visits to Edmonton are more about descendants than ancestors: my three children and now three grandchildren live here. So my time is...
    • Dec 3, 2012

    Choose Joy Before Survival

    I’ve been making the wrong choices ever since I was a child. I distinctly remember at the age of about six, when given the choice of...
    • Nov 23, 2012

    Back from the Dead

    That title of this blog is facetious but there is some truth to it. I have just been on a one-week vacation to Maui. It was another...
    • Aug 9, 2012

    My first book on Amazon.com

    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...
    • May 28, 2012

    The Difficulty of Titles

    As you know, my novel A Garden in the Wilderness was published by Borealis Press recently. It did not always have that title. I...
    • Feb 29, 2012

    The Serpentine Path now available!

    I am pleased to announce that my book The Serpentine Path has now been e-published and is available at Smashwords. The Serpentine Path is...
    • Jul 22, 2010

    The Importance of Memoir

    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...
    • Apr 26, 2010

    Pigging out in the Eighteenth Century

    Meat was the staple of eighteenth century meals– meat, meat and more meat. Although the poor might have only two types of meat at a meal,...
    • Apr 19, 2010

    Scottish Wedding Traditions

    Scottish wedding traditions are pretty bizarre. If you’re planning a wedding and have some Scottish ancestry (or even if you don’t) you...
    • Apr 13, 2010

    In the Shadow of Revolution

    The great events of our time colour who we are and shape us in ways to do not recognize. The American Revolution was in full swing when...
    • Apr 5, 2010

    Tartan Day

    Tomorrow is Tartan Day, and I want to honour that “holiday” by talking about my Scottish protagonist John Dean and explaining why the...
    • Mar 31, 2010

    Elopement as Theft of Property

    Unsuitable love matches must have been a problem in England in the 18th century because a law was passed in 1753 making marriage without...
    • Mar 23, 2010

    The Masquerade at Vauxhall Garden

    The masquerade needs to experience a revival as a form of popular entertainment. I can’t think of anything more fun than dressing up in...
    • Mar 16, 2010

    Gardening in the 18th Century

    I did a lot of research for The Pleasure Gardeners Companion. There are two really important books that I am greatly indebted to. One is...
    • Mar 9, 2010

    Susan Kirke Dean: Revolutionary

    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...
    • Mar 5, 2010

    The Pleasure Gardener’s Companion

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

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