Historical Fiction & Business Author, World Traveler & Speaker
Historical Fiction & Business Author, World Traveler & Speaker
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have a lousy memory, so not many books stick with me for years, other than a general “I liked it” feeling. But this one has. It…
I have taken several online writing courses since house-arrest began, and in one (a session put on by Connie Messing, one of the Writers in Residence for Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries), we were asked to write (with no thinking…
It seems like years since we were in Cape Verde, given all that has happened since we returned to Malaga just over two weeks ago. I still have other posts about Cape Verde that I will put up eventually, but…
In thinking through whether we could afford to retire early and still have the kind of life (and travels) that we wanted, we knew it was important to set aside contingency funds. While the assumption was that it would be…
When I was a kid I envied my classmates who broke their limbs. They would get a cast that all the other kids, and even the teacher, would sign. Everybody made a fuss about them. My neighbour, who broke…