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...

Margo taking a picture of Swiss fondue Being of a certain age, my sister Margo and I are not accustomed to taking pictures of our food...

I arrived in Zürich on the first of May. Having several hours to wait before my sister Margo’s train arrived. I attended a May Day...

This is the first blog in a series that I will post on my two-week vacation. Tomorrow I’m flying to Zurich to meet my sister Margo. She’s...

I dreamed I had just published a book and on the cover was a picture of me as a baby. Easy interpretation that: everyone knows my book is...