The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt....

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...

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...

With “All Souls/Saints Day” just a few days away, this is a good question. I am reading a “memoir” of Margaret Drabble and she suggests...

Looking back on my trip to South Carolina and neighboring states, I have the lingering feeling that I was walking through the pages of my...

I spent the day visiting battle sites of the American REvolution. First, the remains of the fort at Ninety Six. I found that there were...

Day 2, we played tourists in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. Today we were back on the tail of Michael Eisan in South Carolina. At the...

We spent the morning in the Charleston Public Library searching for documentation that would indicate where my ancestor Michael Eisan...

Pumpkin People at Kentville, Nova Scotia Yesterday we went to Kentville, home of the Pumpkin People. There we had our turkey dinner with...

Here’s me, Christopher Dean, his mother and sister at the Dartmouth Chapters store for a book signing. Chris is my third cousin. I think...

Wednesday and Thursday were the best days off. Wednesday, a sunny day in the mid 20s, we went with a friend in a Mustang convertible to...

Ship Harbour Community Hall Thanks to the two lovely ladies who let us into the community hall and then stayed to talk with us for an...

Signing at Historic Properties on Day 5 It’s all about the people! Day six was a great day. We spent the morning putting up posters about...

Day four was a day of sitting in bookstores, smiling and signing books. I spent an hour and a half at a Chapters in a big box store and...

Bicentennial Theatre, Middle Musquodoboit (rhymes with Hobbit). I spent the morning trying to find out what happened to the shipment of...

Since There were no book-selling events scheduled on Day Two, David and I took the ferry from Dartmouth where we’re staying to Halifax...

Thanks also to the lovely old English woman who bought a copy for her daughter. I thought at first that she was a little dotty. She...

I’m so excited about my upcoming book tour in Nova Scotia (Sept. 26 to Oct. 8). Anyone reading this who lives in the Halifax area, I...

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...