My Books and How They Began

    Home – Chronicle of a North Country Life I heard the first two sentences of this book in my mind: The coyotes are newcomers. Several years ago, they moved into the forests above our farm. When I wrote them down, I felt that I had finally found my voice. This book, my first, came after a Read More …

Blue Snow and Transformations

March 2015 Hello from New Brunswick, where we’ve had an unprecedented amount of snow! We make the best of it, with expeditions into the trackless wilds.   ~ I’d like to keep you abreast of our family’s artistic endeavours. My son, Jake, and my husband, Peter, collaborated on a cast bronze and glass reliquary called Read More …

A Hundred Silver Stars

September 2014   Welcome to my newsletter. That pile of drafts I’m staring at has now culminated in a new novel, A Measure of Light, the story of a 17th century woman named Mary Dyer. She is a real but mysterious person, who went from London to the wilds of the New World and met Anne Read More …