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The Evolution of a Novel

No doubt some authors conceive a novel, create a brief outline then write full steam ahead. The Admiral’s Wife, my current WIP, is not such a novel. At the beginning,

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The Joy of Friendship

Last Sunday my husband and I hosted a dinner with two other couples – an annual tradition that has been going on for close to twenty years. The three women

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Giving Thanks

While Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, I thought I’d use the occasion of US Thanksgiving to articulate some of the things I’m grateful for. The list could be much longer

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Biking in the Loire Valley

It began like this. “We should do another bike trip,” my husband said a year ago. “Mm hmm,” I replied. “Before we get too old,” he added. Too old? Surely, mid-sixties

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Taking a break

Dear readers … all sorts of things going on here in Tod-land. Some on the writing front and others on the home front, so I’m taking a break from the

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A ‘Shultz Hour’

A departure from historical fiction to consider life in general. One of my favourite newspapers is the New York Times. We get the Sunday NYT in Toronto as well as

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