Sad News This happy little evacuee, sitting on his ‘truck’, spent the war years in Canada with my great aunt and uncle. The loving relationship he developed lasted a lifetime. Although Aunt Dorothy died in 1949, John visited and kept in touch with...

A Treasure Trove

A wonderful surprise awaited me in the mailbox last week! A box of letters had arrived from England, sent by an 80+ year old man who had lived in Canada as a child. He and his sister had been evacuated to Windsor, Ontario for the duration of World War II where...

Love and Avarice

Roger and Claire Cohen face danger and peril amidst the sudden appearance of an ominous illness that ravages their community. (Sound familiar?) They struggle to maintain a crumbling marriage while trying to decipher the riddle of this threat and solve the...

What a surprise!

I just received a response to a message I sent eight years ago! In my novel The Medal, I created the character of Sam who is a composite of three Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan. Before the book was published, I wrote to each of their parents to...