Musings from Middle Earth (6)
Homecoming at Hobbiton Every story is a journey filled with perils that ends with a homecoming. Our journey through New Zealand had its...
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Mar 29, 2015
Musings from Middle Earth (5)
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...
Mar 28, 2015
Musings from Middle Earth (4)
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...
Mar 27, 2015
Musings from Middle Earth (3)
The Perils of Middle Earth We slept three nights at Isengard and there we survived the last dying breath of a cyclone. Actually, the...
Mar 15, 2015
Musings from Middle Earth (2)
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...
Mar 12, 2015
Musings from Middle Earth (1)
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...
Mar 5, 2015
Middle Earth, I mean New Zealand, here I come
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...
Nov 10, 2014
The Latest Book News
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...
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...
Jul 30, 2014
Procrastination
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...
Jun 24, 2014
Dead People: Part 2
My husband David is a genealogy buff, and recently he finished writing a history of my Malcolm ancestors who came to Victoria from...
Jun 21, 2014
Dead People (Part One)
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...
Jun 3, 2014
The Spirituality of Writing
Star Billing Our writing workshop began yesterday evening. There were ten of us– nine women and one man. We talked about writing and then...
May 19, 2014
A Backwards Trip Up the Rhine
“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...
May 11, 2014
Spargel Time in Germany
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...
May 8, 2014
Whimsical Folk Art We Saw in Switzerland
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...
May 6, 2014
Delicious Food We Have Eaten in Switzerland
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...
May 5, 2014
Daring Things We Have Done in Switzerland
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...
Apr 29, 2014
Switzerland and Germany Trip
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...
Jan 22, 2014
Dreams and Marketing
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...
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