I’ve been planning to walk the Camino for 10 years, but have really ramped up my research and plans in the past two years. There are many Caminos, the most p...

I recently saw a top 10 list of things to do in Northern Ireland. Sites such as the Giant’s Causeway, the Dark Hedges, Carrick-a-Rede bridge are on the list,...

Some days, it takes a lot to make it through the day. And then, sometimes, I wonder why the universe is smiling on me so much. Lately, I’ve been feeling a bi...

You may have noticed some radio silence from me in the past month or so. Truth is, my family and I went on our first family vacation in at least four years. ...

I've spent most of the year, off and on, copy editing and proofreading this book. It just got published, and I feel that sense of pride I get when I see my n...

I read Room to Write by Bonni Goldberg, last year. This was the exercise on p. 134: make a list of truths, one for every year of your current age. Seems lik...

These November days remind me of winter in England. Those perfect winter days when the frost settles on the bushes, but it’s not too cold. Or the cold nips y...

Forest Road outside Stratford to Lisbon Cemetery: 22k This is my last hike likely this year. I have done 72k of the 113k of the Avon Trail. I'll pick it up i...

Perth-Oxford Road, near Line 113, to Forest Road at Hwy 7, Stratford: 20k Another October Sunday full of sunshine, brightly coloured forests and just enough ...

Wildwood Conservation Area to Perth-Oxford Rd., near Line 113: 16k This is the third instalment about my walk on the Avon Trail, a 113-kilometre trail that s...

St. Mary’s to Wildwood Conservation Area: 14km At 113 kilometres, the Avon Trail winds from St. Mary’s to Conestogo. I’m practicing for walking the Camino ne...

I threw my own party for my 40th birthday – a bona fide ceilidh complete with caller, live band and lots of friends and family. My daughter had come down wit...

Recently, Facebook reminded me of my Irish in-laws’ last trip to Canada, 10 years ago. There were pictures of my parents, looking so much more youthful even ...

noun vi·​gnette | \ vin-ˈyet , vēn-\ Definition of vignette 1a: a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surroundin...

porch noun \ ˈpȯrch \ 1: a covered area adjoining an entrance to a building and usually having a separate roof 2: obsolete : PORTICO I love old houses. They’...

I purchased this little mug as a souvenir on my very first trip to the UK. It was 1992. I’d graduated from the University of Waterloo with a BA in history, a...

I have two of these simple round boxes, each the same size, about two feet deep and the same across. They’re blonde wood bent into a circle and stapled in pl...

I wrote this in 2011, and stumbled across it recently. I've had many moments like this in my life, and I've come to see them as encounters with the divine. T...

This is another antique in my house, a beacon to a bygone era, when clothes were created from scratch. It’s also one of those items my husband sees no use fo...