Where Do Poems Come From?

Here’s a little story….. In 2008, when I was promoting my first novel, Tangled Roots, I was interviewed by a BBC affiliate radio station. It was one of my first ever radio interviews and I was both excited and nervous. It was going well. I was hitting all...
All Together Now

All Together Now

The Don and I hosted a great evening last night. As one of our ‘inching our way towards departure’ events, we held a party celebrating retirement, speeding up and new goals. For me, the most wonderful aspect of it was how many different parts of our lives...
A Difficult Post to Write, Or -The Meaning of Home

A Difficult Post to Write, Or -The Meaning of Home

Strange as it might seem, I  have been writing posts on this blog for over eight years. These past eight years have seen many, many changes, all of which I’ve recorded here in one way or another: children have grown up, gone off to university, and even gotten...