Category: lifestyle
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Why I never became a travel agent
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The Cambridge Dictionary describes an adventure as “an exciting, unusual, and potentially risky undertaking. It often involves stepping outside your comfort zone, embracing unpredictability”, and mentions the “psychological thrill of a daring journey”. My hubby and I began our adventures before we even embarked on our honeymoon. We’d just gotten…
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Tea, beyond the cup and saucer
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Did you know that every kind of true tea that you drink, from white to green to oolong to black to pu’erh, all comes from the same plant, in fact the top three leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant? The look and taste of the tea in your cup depends…
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Be like a writer: Stop and smell the lilacs
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When I was growing up, we had a lilac shrub in the back yard, and each spring my mother would clip panicles of the lavender flowers and bring them inside. Sitting in a vase in the living room, they would fill the house with scent. The smell of things is…
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Being a bold woman today
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“And I may say, once for all, carefully weighing my words, that in no part of the world have I seen stones cut with such mathematical precision and admirable skill as in Peru, and in no part of Peru are there any to surpass those which are scattered over the…
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The End of a Train Era
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In Egypt, there were miles of sand, which refused to remain pleasantly flat. It made the tracks undulate so much that it gave our train a pronounced sway – so much so that at times it felt like the car holding our cabin was going to tip right over. There…
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A spicy holiday season
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I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce. Taylor Swift Sometimes Taylor speaks for all of us. When the weather in the northern hemisphere turn harsh and the nights grow longer, comfort foods…
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Thick fun in the summertime
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I read an article recently that piqued my interest. It seems there’s a very recent trend to dive into “big, thick books” this summer, and the writer dissected why that might be. And since I write big, thick books, I thought about my own attraction to that type of novel.…
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Tea and a Mystery: The Great Brownstone Detective
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Saul and I handled the breakfast problem, and for lunch we had cold cuts, including the sturgeon, which had been passed as edible, two bottles of champagne, and five kinds of cheese. The Doorbell Rang (A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 41) If you’re going to play hermit for a day…
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On hiatus until June
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On orders from my body, I’m taking a wellness break to recover before my big launch event from May 30 to June 1, 2025, so I’ll be seeing you back in these pages on June 10th. Maybe I’ll see some of you in Niagara Falls: Booth 10!!
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Storytelling: Winter Escapism and the Inspiration for Indiana Jones
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Inspiration comes in all forms. Sometimes it’s a post to Instagram celebrating International Pisco Sour Day 😉 My dad and I loved to watch adventure movies together. While Journey to the Centre of the Earth has always been my favourite from our virtual Sunday escapades, another movie that really stuck…