If you have an e-reader and would like to get a tremendous deal on ebooks, you should check out Smashwords. For the month of July, they...

Greater Victoria Public Library is a great supporter of local writers. This evening they are hosting a reception/book launch for the...

Well, why do we put ourselves through such torture if we can’t brag about our accomplishment? This morning I validated the 50,003 words...

Why do I write? Writing is my greatest pleasure. It is a gift from God and a gift for God. And what is God? God is a spirit, the spirit...

Homecoming at Hobbiton Every story is a journey filled with perils that ends with a homecoming. Our journey through New Zealand had its...

Many More Strange Birds First of all, the bird in front of the New Zealand fur seal in my second musing was an oyster catcher, not a...

More about the Big One Wellington, this time My husband David wanted to go to New Zealand because he lived there 40 years ago and he...

The Perils of Middle Earth We slept three nights at Isengard and there we survived the last dying breath of a cyclone. Actually, the...

Kiwis and Other Strange Birds Strange birds abound in New Zealand. Everyone’s heard of the kiwi, but they’re reputed to be very shy and...

Are We Ready for the Big One? So many people have told me how much Christchurch is like my hometown of Victoria. These are the...

It’s been a while since I’ve had anything interesting to talk about on my blog, so this Sunday I’m headed down under to see a part of the...

On Saturday, November 15, the main branch of the Victoria Public Library is having a sale of books of local authors. I’ll be there...

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...

Today I shall write for the sheer joy and pleasure it will bring me and not to produce something grand or even good. Yet every word tends...

My husband David is a genealogy buff, and recently he finished writing a history of my Malcolm ancestors who came to Victoria from...

I hear dead people. I do. Sometimes it’s surprising the lengths they go to to speak to me. Sometimes I have no idea what they’re trying...

Star Billing Our writing workshop began yesterday evening. There were ten of us– nine women and one man. We talked about writing and then...

“Alles gute zum Mutter Tag” It was Mother’s Day and nearing the end of our trip to Germany and I was finally going to get the gift I had...

Highlight of Heidelberg After our quick trip to France, we hopped on a high speed train to Germany and said good-bye to Switzerland. We...

Fragment of a Roman Mosaic from Aventicum One of the first photographs I took on arriving in Zürich was a rather large and gaudy angel...