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This is from my current manuscript, Larkin’s Story.  It’s a historical fiction set in rural Ontario in the late 1800s. The story begins with a Coroner’s Inquest into the suspicious deaths of two [...]

Ingredients: 4 eggs 1 cup sugar 2 tsp grated lemon peel 1 tsp lemon extract 1 cup plus 4 Tblspn all-purpose flour 1 cup unsalted butter, melted (icing sugar to sprinkle on the top after they are [...]

Visualize a raw turkey breast in the grocery store: white-dimpled skin covering a rounded, fleshy chunk of poultry. That’s what I thought my un-tanned legs looked like. I was reckless with my [...]

Ingredients Pre-made, small, frozen tart shells (24) Fresh raspberries Dried figs Bottle of Kirsch Brick of cream cheese (softened to room temperature) Tin condensed milk 1/3 cup Lemon juice 1 [...]

Although I consider myself a fairly accepting person, my views on the wearing of Lycra are perhaps best reflected in the following statement: “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”

We are now living in our third house, having moved from our starter home to a sprawling farmhouse and now finally to this one, a downsized version closer to services, where we intend to grow [...]

When I first learned to type a letter in the Commercial Studies room at high school, we used manual typewriters and little strips of white powder-coated correction tape to fix our errors. We [...]

As we are all adjusting to the “new normal” and what that may mean for each of us, there have been a number of articles written on what we should be doing with our “spare time” while we [...]

Before COVID-19 began in earnest, one of the great pleasures in my life was spending a fair amount of time in kindergarten classrooms. And to my delight, I was once again reminded of the [...]

We are living in challenging and uncertain times. Many despair about those things that we are being asked to refrain from doing, and many of us are in self-imposed quarantine. But perhaps the [...]