The Power of Miracle Icons
On our recent bus tour of Central Europe, we stopped at the Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland to see the miracle icon, the Black Madonna. We arrived during a…
Read moreVisitng Poland, Ukraine’s friend, was uppermost in my mind, when we booked a fourteen-day bus tour through Central Europe. After three long years of being super vigilant, due to Covid…
Read moreTaking roads east and south this summer gave me the opportunity to spend time with family, act in a feature film, and contemplate my next steps. Nothing like a road…
Read moreAn author looks for inspiration everywhere. I found it in a door. Alexander Graham Bell said, ” When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so…
Read moreAs St. Patrick’s Day comes around again, I think about the Irish and their beautiful country. Half my debut novel, A Cry From The Deep, is set in Ireland, from…
Read moreWhen Rob and I visited Cape Spears, I didn’t expect to find a middle class life in a nineteenth century lighthouse. This remote workplace and dwelling is just outside of…
Read moreFirst Impressions Last month, I took a break from my writing and travelled back east with my husband Rob. After visiting our daughter and family in Toronto, we flew via…
Read moreThe Hotel Mercure Sevilla, where we recently stayed, and where Hemingway wrote some of Farewell To Arms, is also known for Graham Greene, author of many prize-winning novels. Typically when I…
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