South African Birds: African Paradise-flycatcher

One of Africa’s most beautiful birds, the agile African paradise-flycatcher inhabits forests and woodlands in much of sub-Saharan Africa.   In keeping with the South African theme of my las...

Beginning a New Book – Rock and Thorn: Six Months in South Africa

To immediately immerse readers in my South African memoir-in-progress, Rock and Thorn: Six Months in South Africa, I’ll write it as an evocative journal filled with sights, sounds, action and re...

South African Memoir on the Horizon

Have events ever come together to give you new direction? Learn how three unrelated events coalesced to point me toward my next book project, a South African memoir.   It’s fascinating how we g...

Exploring Canada: St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador – City on the Eastern Tip of North America

Quirky city on The Rock, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, blends brilliant colour with rugged coastlines and a history spanning five hundred years on North America’s eastern tip. Joi...