Scotland boasts some of the world’s most romantic castles. Maybe you’ve had the privilege of visiting one: Edinburgh, Dunvegan, Urquhart,…
Thanks to the mega-hit Outlander, it’s impossible to wander through the Scottish Highlands without thinking of standing stones and portals…
MY DEBUT NOVEL, A Dream of Death, will be published by Crooked Lane Books in April of 2019. The setting,…
The main character in my mystery, young widow Kate Hamilton, contemplates the significance of dreams: All you have to do…
    “She generally gave herself very good advice,” Lewis Carroll said of Alice in Wonderland, “though she very seldom followed…
This past summer I attended my high school reunion and reconnected with friends I hadn’t seen since that warm day…
Perseverance is one of life’s great virtues—something we admire in others but shrink back from learning ourselves. This is because…
Eudora Welty (1909 – 2001), writer of stories set in the American South, famously said, “Every story would be another…
Last week I told you about my personal philosophy of travel: no mishaps, no memories. After several decades of foreign travel, I’ve…
My blogs are a little off schedule because my husband and I just returned from two cold but nostalgic weeks…