Back when I was a student at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, my room in residence resembled a miniature jungle. At one point, I had...

Finally, it's 2013, a year I never dreamed I would be so glad to see. As many of you know, 2012 was my very own personal "anni...

One of the coolest things about the writing life is how so many of us make friends with other writers. They may be in other disciplines, fi...

Pulmonaria is one of my favourite perennials for any number of reasons. The foliage is fantastic, the pink, blue, white or reddish flowers a...

As many people who hang around with me on Facebook, Twitter, or in real life know, last year one of my projects was to write a book for Nimb...

Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka by Deborah Carr. Goose Lane, 19.95 pb. Author Deborah Carr had known Mary Majka for 15 ye...

Life is always entertainingly busy around these parts. Right after the holidays, people came back to work, looked at their calendars, and f...

Writing a book is kind of like planting a tree, or maybe more like doing winter-sowing; you put in a bunch of work, then there's a lull,...

Welcome to 2011, everyone! I hope you've had a great New Year's and Christmas holiday and are settling back into the regular routin...

One of the very good things about this time of year is that we get to catch up on our reading, or at least we make a good attempt to. We als...

My apologies for being silent the past few days. As many people know, I'm going to have a new book coming out in late winter or early sp...

The past few days since author Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists have been somewhat surreal, at leas...

It's been a good couple of weeks for Nova Scotian writers, although not without its controversies. However, I'm very proud of our wr...

The following is a true story. I dislike garden gnomes immensely. I don't know if I suffered trauma as a child by having one fall on my ...

Autumn is a season that many of us view with a mixture of joy and dread. The rainbow of foliage colours is usually particularly satisfying a...

A few weeks back, I was contacted by a publicist who wondered if I was interested in participating in what is called a Virtual Book Tour, in...

Back in 2006, my dear friend and neighbour Ami McKay wrote an amazing, and bestselling, novel, The Birth House , which caught the public...