How does it feel to wake up injured and needing help, but you can’t remember who you are or how you got there? It happens more often than you might think, though the stories don’t usually make international headlines. A recent case intrigued me. A woman was found, bloodied and injured on an island in… Continue reading Memories Lost… and Found
Category: Books
Rain
Living on Vancouver Island or the ‘Wet Coast’ as I do, it’s no surprise that rain features in my stories. People who read my upcoming books are going to notice a common thread – a lot of bad weather. A critique group partner once said, shivering, “Gawd, can you write rain. I feel like I’m… Continue reading Rain
Creative, tough, tenacious – Freya Stark
Zest for life I might never have learned about Freya but for a book sale where I stumbled on her autobiography, Traveller’s Prelude 1893-1927. It’s an astonishing document of her experiences up to her mid thirties. Freya Stark had a fascinating life. She was an explorer and wrote more than two dozen travel books about… Continue reading Creative, tough, tenacious – Freya Stark