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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...